Meta Monday 12/10/2018: Featuring Updated Post Flairs

[u/xavion]

Hey WWW,

This guide is here to explain the usage of the mandatory flair tagging system for all posts.

Going forward, any and all posts will need to be flaired. No exceptions.

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First things first though. How do you flair a post?

It's quite simple.

Simply click the topic you have posted and the option to flair it will be available. Click the flair option and a drop down menu will be presented to you.

This is how to do so on the PC.

Step 1. Click the Flair Option.

Step 2. Choose from the Drop Down Menu.

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Battle

This is the standard X vs Y flair. We decided to combine Casual and Serious because we already make a point to discourage and remove low-effort/joke responses. This flair doesn't have any special rules accompanying it, abide by our comment rules and discuss the matchup that the OP posted.

Challenge

This flair is for non-standard battle posts like "Can Character X take over the United States". Posts that use this flair are not straightforward battles, they involve a character or group of characters trying to accomplish something. This flair doesn't have any special rules accompanying it, follow our rules and discuss the prompt.

Scan-Battle

We decided to make this an actual flair instead of just having the OP include it in the title. A full description of Scan-Battle rules can be found here. To summarize, any claim you make must be backed by evidence supporting the claim. This doesn't mean paraphrasing a quote that you think you remember or saying that you remember seeing a scan, it means going and finding the actual quote/evidence that supports your claim.

Getting rid of the Writing Prompt Flair

The mods are sad to see this one go, but it is apparent to us that the vast majority of WWW users are not interested in this type of post. We end up having to remove 99% of comments on a Writing Prompt post because they do not follow the rules of the flair.

Us getting rid of the flair doesn't mean we are discouraging long and detailed responses, on the contrary, we would love to see more of that sort of response. If you see a post and want to write a story about it, feel free! Some of our top comments of all time have been those sort of responses on regular posts.

Meta, Featured and Event

We are keeping Meta and splitting Special into two tags, Event, and Featured.

The Featured tag is for all our Featured Character and Team posts. The Event tag is for Tourneys. We are making it so only mods can assign Featured and Event to a post. If you want to submit a featured post or tourney(either a new one or submitting the latest installment in an ongoing Tourney) you must message the mods so we can assign this flair to your post. Please message us prior to submitting your post as you will not be able to assign the correct flair and our Auto-Mod will remove the post after 5 minutes because it does not have a flair. This may be inconvenient, but we decided it is necessary because some users don't read the flair guidelines and think their post is "Special".

That's all the changes we have for you today, let us know what you think! Compliments are appreciated, criticisms will be heard and taken seriously as well. We have fallen off the wagon when it comes to Meta-Monday so this also counts as us getting back into the swing of things. Feel free to discuss flairs or any other Meta things in the comments.

[u/LambentEnigma]

That's not my understanding of the new flairs. It sounds like Battle is for any fight or competition between two (or more) characters or groups, and Challenge is for a character/group trying to accomplish a goal. The example I gave kind of fits both. (Though the mods can correct me if I'm wrong.)

[u/MysteriousHobo2 → u/LambentEnigma]

Our goal is for Battle to be a straightforward physical fight. Your prompt sounds less like that and more like a challenge, especially given how the title is worded.

If you think our wording doesn't make that clear, we are 100% open to suggestions on how to change that, would just adding "physical fight" to our Battle flair description be enough?

Kiwi sums it up perfectly, my comment was an unnecessary limitation on the flair.

[u/LambentEnigma → u/MysteriousHobo2]

Yeah, it's unclear to me. What about "X vs. Y in a game of dodgeball"?

[u/KiwiArms → u/LambentEnigma]

A good rule of thumb is any sort of direct confrontation between two or more combatants is a Battle. Dodgeball is a direct, physical competition, so it's a Battle, as would be, say, "Who would win a chess match, X or Y?". Anything that isn't a Battle that's still a valid post would be Challenge.

[u/LambentEnigma → u/KiwiArms]

Seems like there would be a lot of gray area. The descriptions could definitely use some clarifying.