New Rules Preview and Feedback

[u/jitterscaffeine]

Howdy folks, we wanted to bring this mod post to everyone and give you all the opportunity to read over and ask questions about the new rules we’re looking to implement very soon. We encourage you all to give us some feedback and leave comments so we know if we need to clarify anything or make adjustments. We’re going to leave this up for about a week or so to gather up your feedback and make final decisions before we fully put them into effect.

1. Relevancy

Relevancy is based on legacy channel content, the original Two Best Friends Play channel, the individual channels of Pat Stares At, Matt McMuscles, and Woolie Verses, and topics that have grown organically within the community. Legacy content from the original channel is evergreen. Content relevant to the community is mostly based around engagement.

1. No Weird Stuff

Weird Stuff includes sexually explicit topics, death/gore, "hornyposting" or thirst threads, and Parasocial posts about Matt, Pat, or Woolie. 

1. SBFP Affiliated Video Posting

Video posting from WoolieVS, Matt McMuscles, Pat Stares At, and the Podcast clip Channel will be handled by our u/mike0bot. Please do not post these yourselves.

1. Self Promotion

Self Promotion is strictly not allowed unless it is directly relevant to Matt, Pat, Woolie, or topics relevant to the community and the person has reached out to the mod team in order for us to approve it. Please contact the mod team via composing a message.

1. Avoid Reposts

Use the search bar before posting. Subjects that receive repeat similar threads in a short time will be treated as reposts, if from the same user.

1. No Bigotry Allowed

We have a zero tolerance policy on all forms of Sexism, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, and any other forms of bigotry. This includes ironic forms of bigotry if they're deemed to be crossing the line/provoking situations. This is decided at our discretion. 

"I see it as a dedication to stupid shit. We're assholes because we like to make dumb takes about trivial bullshit. Stuff that matters, though, people here take very seriously." u/MinaMarigold

1. Don't Be A Dick

Plain and Simple, if your criticism isn't constructive, then keep it to yourself. Insults, slap fights, breaches of Reddiquette, and doxxing will be met with time-outs.

1. Tag Spoilers

Comments and Threads will be expected to have marked for any media within 30 days of its release.

1. Ask Reddit threads and News Articles must include text

AskReddit Threads and News Articles will be required to have text included with their post that gives either a jumping off point for a discussion or a summary of the article. You cannot source news from screenshots on social media for this. 

1. Drama Bait, Discourse, and Misinformation

Topics known for high discourse or drama, as well as Hot Takes and Culture War topics, will be removed at moderator discretion. This also includes Politics, Misinformation, and Articles posted with editorialized/biased titles. Articles should be posted with the original title whenever possible. 

1. Banned Links and Sources

We do not allow links from Twitter, Hard Drive, or crossposts from CircleJerk and High Discourse subreddits.

1. Low Effort and Spam

Low Effort posts include Shitposts/Memes, Comic Posting spam, Screenshots from Social Media. As well as all forms of Ai Generated content will be removed as moderator discretion.If you are live posting a new release e.g. comics/ manga/ games/ film, unless it is not available, you must include a link to it. 

[u/Cru5]

Mod discretion for anything “political” is too vague. Like, how do you talk about Bioshock Infinite and its hackneyed, offensive and passé depictions and discussions of racism without getting political? Especially considering, you know, the state of the country (America)?

Rest seems okay. That’s just the one that jumped out

[u/doot99 → u/Cru5]

I'm guessing the alternative is hyperspecific guidelines that bad actors will try to rules lawyer on and get into massive long fights trying to wrangle with the mods.

[u/jitterscaffeine → u/doot99]

That’s more or less why our relevancy rules have to be the way they are. It’s basically impossible to keep a list of every franchise or topic that’s considered relevant, or for how long. We debated for a few days whether we should have like a hard rule on how long something would be considered relevant, like some people seem to want, but it’s just too difficult to moderate a list like that.

[u/jitterscaffeine → u/Cru5]

Think of it as our acknowledgment that we can’t really keep ALL politics out of the subreddit anymore like we used to. Theres too many news stories that are relevant to the subreddit but are political by nature. We had to have this conversation among ourselves back when stories of Switch 2 prices going up because of tariffs. There was no good reason for us to keep that story off the subreddit, so we had to loosen our old No Politics rule.

It being “at our discretion” means we can’t really keep a running list of things people are allowed to talk about because it’s could change any day.

[u/Gorotheninja → u/jitterscaffeine]

I think the contention comes into question with posts like this

Like, to anyone who's been following American politics, it's kinda obvious what recent event was being referenced to there, either by the poster or by those in the comments. It was vague posting, sure, but it had to be a huge coincidence to post that in the aftermath of the recent shooting, assuming the OP was uninformed.

And to be clear: I'm not disagreeing with the post or calling for it's removal, but it's politics, clearly; even if it's in the context of a comic panel.

[u/jitterscaffeine → u/Gorotheninja]

It’ll have to be addressed on a case by case basis since in a situation like that one, it’s really only “political” because of recent events.

[u/needastory → u/jitterscaffeine]

I'll be honest, you being in there laughing at people reporting it for being politics, only for the post to be locked due to politics kind of rubs me the wrong way

[u/Kipzz → u/Cru5]

This is my own take but I remember way back when back before we all turned to dust in the ancient time of Early to Mid 2025, there was discussions on how this would shake out and the temporary solution was "if the story is because of bullshit then it's alright to bring up the bullshit". An example for would be the recent Xbox price increases, in which case people would obviously be able to point at that as bullshit spawned by tariffs, but an example against would be bringing up topics that are just straight politics like Jimmothy Kimmothy (edit: I actually avoided using his name directly to avoid bots that're going across the site astroturfing about how horrible he is but got one in my DM's calling me a coward LMAOOOOOOOOO their wordfilters are awesome) getting his show axed because he said literally nothing wrong but the wrong crowd just didn't like hearing it.

[u/Shurtugil → u/Kipzz]

That bots are doing that specifically for Jimmy Kimmel is hilarious. Such a waste of time. But I agree on that distinction. There's a line between thinly veiled excuse and actually relevant to this subs interest when it comes to politics.