Goodnight, r/danganronpa

Another week, another scrum debate. This week feels like it's been going on forever for me, but that’s beside the point. For today, we have the results of the 60th scrum debate. Here are the results.

1. Most Write-Ups:
   • Celestia Ludenberg - 0 Write-Ups
   • Korekiyo Shinguji - 1 Write-Up
2. Highest Upvoted Write-Up:
   • u/FieldSerious9836 for Korekiyo Shinguji with 11 upvotes
3. Highest Cumulative Upvote Count:
   • Celestia Ludenberg - 0 Upvotes
   • Korekiyo Shinguji - 11 Upvotes

Some may find it weird, but others may find it charming. Appreciating and adopting a different culture can appeal to many in its own way. This week’s scrum was about the characters who rocked different cultures the best, among other qualities about them. With that, the winner of the Culture Connoisseurs Scrum Debate is… Korekiyo Shinguji with a 3-0 score!!! Fitting for the Ultimate Anthropologist to win the contest all about adopting a different culture, or in Kork’s case, multiple. Thank you to u/FieldSerious9836 for the best write-up.

The results will be pinned until this Friday. However, I do have some unfortunate news. Scrum Debates will be going on a small hiatus for the next few weeks. With the combination of me in my last stretch of semesters + worsening mental health + an upcoming surgery, I need to sort a lot of things out before I can come back to hosting them again. For now, take this as a “See You Later.”

If you would like to preview future themes, please click the link: SPOILERS. If you have any feedback for the scrums, please leave it under the pinned comment below. Thank you.

I usually cross out this part of the post for small, quirky things from me, but I just want to say thanks for everything.

Hello everyone, we’ve got a new set of rule changes that we're hoping will lead to clearer and fairer moderation on this subreddit.

Low-Effort Content

Rule 9 (Comment-Requesting Posts) will be consolidated into this rule.

A post may be considered low-effort if it falls into the following categories:

• Low creative, humorous, analytical, or informational value
  • Generic screenshot of something mundane with an unrelated title
  • “Kochi Oma” with an image of Kokichi.
• Posts with low potential to generate interesting discussion
  • “I love Miu!” with nothing else
  • “Give me a character and I’ll give them a 1-10 rating”
• Extremely generic, easily spammable prompts 
  • “What is he looking at?” (With an image)
  • “How would these two interact?” 
  • “Say something nice about Chihiro”

If that last point seems vague, a general rule of thumb would be “Is the post generic enough that you can swap out the image/character with any other image/character, and spam it?” 

Posts that fall into these categories may be removed under this rule. 

Mod discretion will be used when necessary. 

Question: Why has this rule changed?

One of the general “guidelines” that the modteam has historically tried to follow is that all rules must be 100% objective, with no room for interpretation. There must be no grey areas in the rules; if something caused a foreseeable edge case, ambiguity, or potential mistake, the other mods would immediately veto the idea on the grounds that it was impossible to enforce.

The original intent for this style of modding was for people to be able to read the rules and know with 100% certainty what is/isn’t allowed, and for the mods to know with certainty what should/shouldn’t be removed. At the start, it accomplished this, but over time, it started doing the opposite with rules becoming extremely hyperspecific with really awkward criteria to a point where it was impossible to memorize. In addition, the rule would end up being changed every 2-3 months to cover loopholes that ended up being abused.

Now, with most of the older mods cycling through with newer mods taking their place, we’re more willing to add in some level of subjectivity if it makes rules easier to understand. 

We’ve decided that something as inherently subjective as Low-Effort is impossible to define with 100% objectivity while still making sense. Our previous attempts were either too lax and allowed low-effort slopposts to leak through, or too strict with something that has tons of effort removed because it happened to fall under some weird, seemingly harmless criteria. 

We’re hoping that adding some level of subjectivity to the rule will make more sense and cause less problems.

Computer-Generated Content

Content that is directly generated by computers is not allowed on r/danganronpa. This includes:

• AI-generated images
• Screenshots of chatbot responses
• Randomizers such as Hunger Games Simulator and Wheel Decides their Fate

Question: Why has this rule changed?

The rule has not changed, it’s simply being separated into its own rule. The actual application of the rule is the same. 

The reason behind separating this into its own rule is for clarification purposes. With Low-Effort Content being more subjective, we just want to make it clearer if a post is removed because we thought it was a normal low effort post, versus a post being removed because we believe some element of it was AI-generated. 

Politics

This rule will replace our “Banned Topics” rule.

Do not post about real-world politics that are unrelated to Danganronpa.

Political topics that are directly related to Danganronpa are allowed. For example, the following topics would be allowed on r/Danganronpa:

• Tariffs increase the price of 2x2 physical copies 
• Discussion on a political event in the canon Danganronpa story
• Kodaka runs for government

Posts that are not inherently political but are clearly intended to reference a certain political event (such as a post about a sniper on a roof the day after an assassination) will also be removed.

Mod discretion will be used to determine what is considered “political” if necessary.

Question: Why has this rule changed?

As mentioned before, the older iteration of the modteam has historically been against any type of subjectivity or ambiguity. A blanket politics ban was originally deemed “too subjective”, which is why the Banned Topics was a bullet point list of topics that we do not allow. 

With the current state of politics in the world, and us willing to add more mod discretion level rules, we’ve decided that it’s impossible to keep updating a bullet-point list, and replacing it with a general Politics ban would be the healthiest thing for the subreddit.

Tierlists

We polled the subreddit last time and the majority of respondents supported our current implementation of the tier list rule. 

We will be keeping the 5-sentence mandatory explanation for “Favorite X” tier lists/subjective ranking posts.

Please leave any questions or concerns in the comments.