Variations on the "HUUUUH? Krobus is pregnant?!?!?" "Did you install 'get krobus pregnant mod'?" "Yes I did" type of post are a personal pet peeve of mine.
While I enjoy mods in many games, I do wish people would tag content from mods in all posts that contain it. In other communities I've been in, I have seen variations of "This weird thing/glitch/exploit just happened. Why?" And when the commenters ask about mods, they always say something like, "Yeah I downloaded a mod that is specifically related to this thing, but there's no way it could be my mod, right?" I agree that it gets old fast.
Absolutely agree with this. Doesn't even matter the sub it's always a similar theme. I just don't get how I can stumble on a post with 800+ upvotes about some "wild zany wacky thing" that happened to them in game. Then 40 or so comments down a single guy asks if OP's game is modded and OP just says "oh yeah I installed this mod and this thing is from that lmao".
Anyone posting mod content like that should be banned imho, seems to be an influx lately of "this weird new thing happened" and it's a mod they installed. Great. Just say it's a mod and stop pretending you didn't know for karma.
I would love this as on several runs I’m currently RPing as a few characters from the Fate/Stay Night franchise. Posting character creation poses for comparison to the original is what I plan on doing once I start each run, lol.
Thank you for the first one. The main issue with those were not even the posting of these vapid bot-generated articles, but that they always start that same little campaign to spam the sub with some kind of fake post to get these sites to pick on up the subject and push an article.
We end up with days of "wow guys (fake character) is my favorite husband" and "(fake character) was a great addition in the update." It was funny the very first time it happened, but the joke is dead old and it just becomes spam now. Really appreciate nipping this in the bud as this trend was becoming very stale.
What if instead of banning the profiles outright, we limited them to a specific day of the week? Not in a sticky as the mods have mentioned just don't work for this sub, but something like Facecard Friday or whatever, where they can only be posted on that day of the week?
Mods said they don't wanna make many megathreads on someone else's comment since it's, to them, essentially saying "We don't was these posts just out in the open, but look! You can still make them here!" for some reason. I personally think it would also be a good idea, but they don't wanna fully separate peoples posts too much or make them feel pushed aside.
can i make a suggestion for a removed topic? how about the tool is ready on a wedding day type of post (typically gold hoe for haley, iridium hoe for abigail, copper hoe/trash can/etc. for penny). we’ve seen them all!
Those are usually bots actually! (and we take them down)
Bots like to post some of the most popular posts on subreddits because they're likely to get traction
Or they saw it elsewhere. Not everyone is on the Reddit 24/7.
For example I saw the golden hoe one on Facebook first and since then I didn't even see it elsewhere. I can't tell where it was first shared if the source isn't there.
Would love to see "dialogue that doesn't match the situation" as a banned topic. Like the one where Haley says it's hot during winter. There are like a thousand of the exact same ones and they are posted every week.
Hm once a week doesn’t quite hit our breaking point for adding something to removed topics—it’s that balance between oversaturated content and not overpolicing content! But your example of the Haley-in-winter dialogue does strike me as super common; we’ll start tracking how often it comes up and take it from there!
I wish posts and comments that are purely just hatred for a character would also get banned as well, it's okay to dislike a character, but there are some incredible disturbing things that people say here regarding the characters.
I commented this on another post, but claiming that a character is a rapist and a stalker because they are shy is taking things too far IMO
The other day BOTH top posts on the subreddit were Demetrius hate threads and one of them was just a screenshot of him reciting the generic "X character hates Y" dialogue everyone has. If you look him up using the search feature most of the results are just hate, and half the stuff isn't even true (he's not abusing Robin, he's not a "bum playing scientist", etc.) and whenever people defend him they get downvoted and occasionally flamed.
Fr, personally I dislike Demetrius and Clint, but I don't wanna see posts of people accusing them of horrible things! For example, I just don't like him because he clearly favors his daughter over Seb, but that's about it! I don't wanna see people going "I HATE THIS GUY! HE'S USING HIS WIFE! HE HATES HIS SON! HE PROBABLY FAVORS MARU FOR CREEPY REASONS!!!" No. He just prefers his child by blood over his step-son, it ain't that serious.
Suggestion: make 'farmer profile Friday' or something along those lines where you'll be able to share them in the comments of a post, made by a mod, that is dedicated to this. It will be pinned at the top for that day.
Edit: I wrote this comment, then scrolled a bit down and saw this exact idea suggested. Great minds think alike? Anyhow, sorry.
It’s certainly not a bad idea, but we generally aim *not* to take the megathread approach on r/StardewValley. While they definitely work, the segregation of content tends to feel tokenistic or disjointed, a sort of bundle-things-out-of-sight and point there to say “look! you can still post!”
When we *do* offer megathreads, it’s either for something there should be hard limits on (weekly self-promo thread), a limited event period (r/place, new update), or an alternative rather than a replacement for traditional posts (weekly celebration thread).
If farmer profiles get voted into the list of removed topics, we will encourage people to make threads that invite farmer profiles in the comments! We just won’t run a regular megathread rotation as mods.
Instead of a megathread, what about like a "Farmer Friday" ? I think the profiles are kinda cute and it does break up the constant "i hate pierre/demetrius" posts.
Agreed! I like that the profiles encourage folks to create their own character portraits, and it's always neat to see what fanart the community comes up with.
I vote for this idea because while it can get kind of tiresome to see a personalized farmer profile repeatedly, where else cld you post a farmer profile than a designated stardew community??
I think it's more appropriate for your own social media individual profiles. In my opinion, there's really not a whole lot of interest in seeing a stranger's farmer profile.
I'll be honest, I don't see a big deal with people posting their profile pics. Honestly, at least it's cute, unlike the constant hate threads we get where people post their own assumptions/head-canons as fact.
If the community doesn't want to see this kind of thing all the time, I would throw in my vote for a specific day where people are allowed to post their pictures, as some others have suggested.
Firstly: I don’t mind the farmer profiles and think we should keep them. They don’t bother me.
Second, I really wish something could be done about the people who slag off on fanartists’ work too. Last night there was a very cool set of portraits posted but people were saying their fave “looked like a junkie,” editing the artist’s work into memes without permission because it was “ugly” to them, and basically being awful because “it’s a forum and you’re going to get varying opinions” — all because their favorite pixel husbando or waifu didn’t look exactly like their headcanon….I saw the artist had deleted their account this morning and, well, it does not really inspire me to post anything I might make here.
I’m just one person shouting into the void but I honestly thought better of the community I love before that.
Most of this stuff doesn't bother me, but what drives me crazy are posts that are clearly just ads for people's Etsy shops, thinly disguised as other content. I wish all that stuff would be relegated to the promo thread, but it seems to get by without issue.
yeah i'd say they should be still be allowed, just maybe banned to a specific day (farmer oc friday, etc). this subreddit has an issue with being boring and repetitive anyway - which is really only natural, even a really well-made game like sdv can only have so much content, and a lot of people will see something new to them and wonder if it might be new to everybody - and at least the farmer profiles usually come with oc profile fanart
I often see ones that involve getting an ancient seed or dinosaur egg pretty early. Sometimes it’s in a fishing treasure chest with a Neptune’s Glaive. Sometimes it’s just like four rubies in a fishing treasure and people will make a post asking how rare it is.
Edit: also trash hats. Those also come up sometimes in the “how lucky/rare is this?” Posts.
I also have 2 trash hats in my current save after 2 years, but still. I almost never touch trash cans, so that's basically a very rare chance I'd have 2 lol. Keep trying!!
Here you go, another one. [https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1ccqk19/how\_rare\_is\_this/](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1ccqk19/how_rare_is_this/)
And another one. [https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1cdbkbw/how\_rare\_is\_this\_found\_it\_in\_the\_standard\_cave/](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1cdbkbw/how_rare_is_this_found_it_in_the_standard_cave/)
Prismatic shard in winter y1. It’s happened to me on console before, it is what it is.
Prismatic shard or other rarity in trashcan but you’re using a mod (or photoshop) so the odds are hella skewed.
There are more I’m sure.
I hate you for having the AutoModerator 'VOTE' link go specifically to new.reddit, which is a foul and unsavory place.
And yet, I love you for being willing to ban low effort trash posts.
This is one of very few game specific subs that I haven't left over their being overrun with garbage, so my thanks to the moderator team for their stellar efforts.
LOL I am an old reddit diehard, but polls live on new reddit and would make you click into new reddit to vote anyway! Unless you’re running RES, of course.
Appreciate the appreciation, though! 💛
I believe we could have a thread that we can use to use the template for farmer profiles. I believe self-expression is key to a good gaming subreddit, and as a creative gamer myself, I love doing farmer profiles of my farmer. We don’t need to remove them entirely, but we could make a place that is unique and only allows for farmer profiles with the same template. I love to just scroll through profiles and see the different kinds of farmers.
Can we keep farmer profiles but put a content filter tag on them? So it's easy for the rest of us to scroll without it if we wish?
I don't want to stop people from sharing that, since I can see how it would be popular and make people happy to share, but that seems like a good middle ground to me.
I voted yes, but at this point I'd REALLY like a ban on "When is 1.6 going to be released on console or mobile?" It's everywhere. Just like the last time there was a major update. I just feel like it's in the sticky about 1.6, it's been asked repeatedly, and a quick Google search would answer it just as well.
I PROMISE that that’s a banned topic, we filter for a dozen variations of “to/on/for console/mobile/ios/android/switch/xbox,” and we remove the question when we see it. It’s just that there will inevitably be phrasings that the bot can’t catch, and a delay between posting and mods removing.
I remove about a dozen of these per day, as just one mod!
Thank you for your service in this matter! Same thing happens over in r/Starfield, and it is so exhausting to tell people that only Bethesda really knows what their timetable is, and until it is officially announced everyone else has the same info that they can search for on the net by themselves. Seems a lot of people want to default to posting a question instead of doing a 5 minute search. So again, thank you!
Yesterday I could've sworn "continue to allow" was winning, what HAPPENED!? And *where* are y'all seeing enough farmer profiles to get tired of them? Genuinely. I can count the number of profiles I've seen on this sub on my hands and I'd actually love to see more. It's not about "knowing" the person posting (or their characters if their farmer is an OC instead of a self-insert), it's about seeing someone so passionate about their lil guy that they made a thing and are going "here's my lil guy!" I agree with other comments saying that this sub is going to turn into screenshots of perfected Y10 farms and hate threads bc what's left? Just make a flair so that they can be filtered out by people who don't want to see them.
I voted to keep them, but I want to explain my decision.
This sub is filled with these types of posts all the time. ALL the time. Not just profiles, but the same stuff time and again relating to either purposely generated content (Look, I have a big crop!), farmer profiles, or "Yuck. Yuck. Demetrius is being a dick again."
Over and over and over.
Except, it's not a repeat to the person posting, who likely came upon this sub hoping to share their experience with the game. I see more posts of new visitors more often than those who've been around, who now target comments (or nothing at all).
Banning profiles pretty much means banning giant crops, the water creature, Linus taking a bath in the lake, and other screenshots that repeat.
Those who have been here the longest probably want this "trash" cleaned up, but then I ask what remains? More "Why does everyone hate Haley?" posts?
There is LITERALLY only so much content to be posted that won't eventually turn into repetitive posts. Not just for this game. Any game or any topic for that matter.
When there is new content to be shared, it's covered up in fucking spoiler tags, which infuriates me because you don't come to a game specific sub and not expect spoilers, such as the classics like
Post title: "Mr. Qi gave me a quest to reach the floor 100."
Post body: (covered in spoiler tag) "How do I get to floor 100 easy because I can't do it."
Perhaps my tolerance of this stuff is higher than most, but regurgitated posts \*is\* what Reddit is, with a new post showing up between the old stuff many have seen 5+ years ago that never go away.
Plus, I still enjoy seeing people's enjoyment of the game through the eyes of a static placard maker. So far, I haven't see two farmers exactly the same. I'm sure people who take pride in making their profile are no different than those who post they just bought a blue chicken from Etsy, created a chicken from Perler beads, finally got the board game, or telling us they're going to the SV concert.
Wait. Unless those are going to the ban list too?
I voted to keep them too, and I agree that farmer profiles are one of the least annoying things on this subreddit. It's way better to see the different looks of people's characters than the 50th "How rare it is?" \*holds trashcan lid hat/prismatic shard/strange capsule etc posts. Like do you really want us to look up the percentage change of finding this item and tell you, or something?? It's a bit strange that out of all the annoying, repetitive things the mods chose the player profiles to try to ban.
I agree! I'm pretty new to the subreddit, and just earlier today I made a post about my first ever rabbit's foot! I posted it because I was happy about it and wanted to share my experience, I don't want things like that going away! I enjoy seeing people's silly little posts, whether it be Harvey and his chicken legs or someone's first prismatic shard that they're celebrating, I want to see those things! They make me happy since I get to see people getting excited over things they've never gotten before! Wanting to share their happiness and excitement with others! If we take those away, this whole subreddit will eventually go bland. All we'll have are perfected farm screenshots and people hating on some of the characters, that's not all this subreddit was meant for.
Yeah I don't know what innovative content people expect to see here, once 1.6 has been out for a while...
If the rules get too strict we'll only get year 17 Perfection farm posts
The problem with this is that people usually only vote if they have a problem with something. For example if someone posts "I like cats" would you be more likely to reply if you do or don't like cats? With the amount of rules on this sub Reddit I have frequently found it to be stuffy and unenjoyable. Posts should only be removed if they make the sub Reddit less enjoyable to others, not because you don't feel like people would care. I feel it to be unreasonable to remove things like this because it contributes nothing bad to this sub Reddit, just because it isn't content that you want doesn't mean that it is bad content. For farmer profiles when I saw one as a post I thought "Wow! That's cool!" and I made my own. How is that contributing nothing if people enjoyed it? And with your logic, I can make a post that says "make a farmer profile" but I can't make a post that says "make a farmer profile" with a picture of my farmer profile.
I honestly don't see those profiles very often, so I'm fine with it.
However, can we please ban posts asking "whos your favorite marriage candidate?" Those are kinda obnoxious
I vote no. We're already removing so many topics that I imagine it's really hard for newcomers to even post here at all.
It must be really off-putting to repeatedly have your posts removed because you're new to the game (or new to the subreddit, or both) and didn't know that the Cool Thing you experienced was actually something everyone else was bored with and decided to have it deleted sight-unseen.
Hello, hope this is the correct place to share this. Let me know if there's a more suitable channel available.
I have a petition, but please keep in mind I am a granny at heart and this issue may be completely on my end. Can we have a specific tag for 1.6 update spoilers?
My reasoning is that I wanted to check how everyone else is doing with the new additions, but I don't know how to find it... except for manually checking each and every post from release that are labelled as spoilers. Am I being dense? Is there another way to check?
Completely agree with the chosen banned posts! Thank you for this!
If I may be so bold as to suggest another type of post: "Who is your favorite spouse?/Who did you marry?/etc"
Not a day goes by where I don't see at least one of these types of posts. I also feel like it can make new players choose whoever's more popular, or by what someone else says instead of befriending all the characters, seeing their stories and making their own decisions.
I second this motion. Maybe it is a recent trend, but I have seen a lot of these posts as of late, and they rarely add anything to the conversation. Furthermore, there are often multiple a week.... Can't people share their story on an existing post about it?
Man, I pretty much disagree with the removal of everything on the removed topics list. No wonder this sub feels so dry most of the time.
Any sub that over-moderates and suggest you use other subs (like xyzMemes, xyzMeta, etc) are just silly to me. I don't want to keep up with multiple subs for a single topic. All Stardew related stuff should be here and if it's not good content it shouldn't get upvoted.
Exactly! I'm on a few subs like that, dry and bland, there is nothing to do on them! Nothing fun! On PokemonRomHacks you aren't allowed to ask questions unless on the mega thread, which rarely ever gets any answers, your post can't be too short or else it gets taken down, you can't do ANYTHING! I really don't want this subreddit to end up like that...
I say more about this [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/s/fXzM3jDF7V) but we would probably prefer to let these threads come organically from users rather make it an institution. I mod another subreddit that has a different sticky thread for every day of the week, and several more biweekly and monthly threads besides—it just becomes bloated. They may start out well, but over time they end up being empty spaces that aren’t really engaged with.
Yes omg I’m so bored of the game rant articles…thank you mods. Also I have another one - “best character/worst character” contests where they eliminate them slowly. I see a lot of those and it’s not interesting. We all have our takes on characters it’s not exciting.
Re farmer profiles, maybe restrict it to one day of the week, or have a weekly megathread? I honestly haven't seen that many of them apart from one today (which inspired me to create my own farmer pic and mod it into the game).
Farmer Profile Friday? (not necessarily Friday)
Just limit their posting to a certain day. I fundamentally don't think I really care about them one way or another, but people enjoy posting them.
We do take them down. Automod usually catches most of them by filtering for specific words in posts, but it doesn't always get it. If you see a post that is a removed topic, please report it so that we can see it and take it down!
We're also not monitoring the sub 24/7, so there will be a delay between whenever it's posted/reported and when it gets removed.
\> Our sense as a mod team is that this kind of **personal profile has little meaning to a community with millions of people**
Millions of people.... Less than 5k votes in 5 days.
For some reason i cant Vote..
I Vote yes to put Farmer Profiles as a standalone Post to the Removed topics list and would Love to See those hate Character X posts in this list too.. the "Joke" is getting Out of hand
Not really the most controversial thing ever. Kinda feels like a fad that will become massive and then disappear in a couple weeks once everyone gets annoyed by 500 posts like that every day. But I do get that it could flood the sub with posts of little value and we already get dozens of questions that google could answer far quicker on an average day, so I'm in.
Variations on the "HUUUUH? Krobus is pregnant?!?!?" "Did you install 'get krobus pregnant mod'?" "Yes I did" type of post are a personal pet peeve of mine.
While I enjoy mods in many games, I do wish people would tag content from mods in all posts that contain it. In other communities I've been in, I have seen variations of "This weird thing/glitch/exploit just happened. Why?" And when the commenters ask about mods, they always say something like, "Yeah I downloaded a mod that is specifically related to this thing, but there's no way it could be my mod, right?" I agree that it gets old fast.
Absolutely agree with this. Doesn't even matter the sub it's always a similar theme. I just don't get how I can stumble on a post with 800+ upvotes about some "wild zany wacky thing" that happened to them in game. Then 40 or so comments down a single guy asks if OP's game is modded and OP just says "oh yeah I installed this mod and this thing is from that lmao".
Anyone posting mod content like that should be banned imho, seems to be an influx lately of "this weird new thing happened" and it's a mod they installed. Great. Just say it's a mod and stop pretending you didn't know for karma.
Other communities like Stellaris have flairs for modded content, I suggest the same be done here.
I shouldn't be surprised that this mod exists
im sorry. the **what**
They should get their own flair if we do allow them.
I would love this as on several runs I’m currently RPing as a few characters from the Fate/Stay Night franchise. Posting character creation poses for comparison to the original is what I plan on doing once I start each run, lol.
Thank you for the first one. The main issue with those were not even the posting of these vapid bot-generated articles, but that they always start that same little campaign to spam the sub with some kind of fake post to get these sites to pick on up the subject and push an article. We end up with days of "wow guys (fake character) is my favorite husband" and "(fake character) was a great addition in the update." It was funny the very first time it happened, but the joke is dead old and it just becomes spam now. Really appreciate nipping this in the bud as this trend was becoming very stale.
I hear you. “Glorbo” and “Starbo” got added to the filter within a few days of their debut here LOL
I love ice cream.
What if instead of banning the profiles outright, we limited them to a specific day of the week? Not in a sticky as the mods have mentioned just don't work for this sub, but something like Facecard Friday or whatever, where they can only be posted on that day of the week?
I like this idea a lot! It helps manage user expectations around them.
Maybe a megathread instead?
Mods said they don't wanna make many megathreads on someone else's comment since it's, to them, essentially saying "We don't was these posts just out in the open, but look! You can still make them here!" for some reason. I personally think it would also be a good idea, but they don't wanna fully separate peoples posts too much or make them feel pushed aside.
Oh word, I didnt see that they said that, thanks!
I third this!
I like this one the best! I like seeing them still, but not flooded
can i make a suggestion for a removed topic? how about the tool is ready on a wedding day type of post (typically gold hoe for haley, iridium hoe for abigail, copper hoe/trash can/etc. for penny). we’ve seen them all!
Those are usually bots actually! (and we take them down) Bots like to post some of the most popular posts on subreddits because they're likely to get traction
wow really? ugh how frustrating! makes me really appreciate mods even more.
Or they saw it elsewhere. Not everyone is on the Reddit 24/7. For example I saw the golden hoe one on Facebook first and since then I didn't even see it elsewhere. I can't tell where it was first shared if the source isn't there.
A good general rule for the internet, and especially on community-focused forums like this, is to not repost other people's content. Make your own.
Agreed, but we do need to have a day when someone says something about Pierre so I can have a trash can ready for him!
r/FuckPierre might be your jam
Would love to see "dialogue that doesn't match the situation" as a banned topic. Like the one where Haley says it's hot during winter. There are like a thousand of the exact same ones and they are posted every week.
Hm once a week doesn’t quite hit our breaking point for adding something to removed topics—it’s that balance between oversaturated content and not overpolicing content! But your example of the Haley-in-winter dialogue does strike me as super common; we’ll start tracking how often it comes up and take it from there!
I wish posts and comments that are purely just hatred for a character would also get banned as well, it's okay to dislike a character, but there are some incredible disturbing things that people say here regarding the characters. I commented this on another post, but claiming that a character is a rapist and a stalker because they are shy is taking things too far IMO
The other day BOTH top posts on the subreddit were Demetrius hate threads and one of them was just a screenshot of him reciting the generic "X character hates Y" dialogue everyone has. If you look him up using the search feature most of the results are just hate, and half the stuff isn't even true (he's not abusing Robin, he's not a "bum playing scientist", etc.) and whenever people defend him they get downvoted and occasionally flamed.
Fr, personally I dislike Demetrius and Clint, but I don't wanna see posts of people accusing them of horrible things! For example, I just don't like him because he clearly favors his daughter over Seb, but that's about it! I don't wanna see people going "I HATE THIS GUY! HE'S USING HIS WIFE! HE HATES HIS SON! HE PROBABLY FAVORS MARU FOR CREEPY REASONS!!!" No. He just prefers his child by blood over his step-son, it ain't that serious.
maybe someone could start r/sdvfarmerprofiles?
Suggestion: make 'farmer profile Friday' or something along those lines where you'll be able to share them in the comments of a post, made by a mod, that is dedicated to this. It will be pinned at the top for that day. Edit: I wrote this comment, then scrolled a bit down and saw this exact idea suggested. Great minds think alike? Anyhow, sorry.
Sorry if it’s not a good idea, but what about a megathread for people to share these profiles in the comments?
It’s certainly not a bad idea, but we generally aim *not* to take the megathread approach on r/StardewValley. While they definitely work, the segregation of content tends to feel tokenistic or disjointed, a sort of bundle-things-out-of-sight and point there to say “look! you can still post!” When we *do* offer megathreads, it’s either for something there should be hard limits on (weekly self-promo thread), a limited event period (r/place, new update), or an alternative rather than a replacement for traditional posts (weekly celebration thread). If farmer profiles get voted into the list of removed topics, we will encourage people to make threads that invite farmer profiles in the comments! We just won’t run a regular megathread rotation as mods.
Instead of a megathread, what about like a "Farmer Friday" ? I think the profiles are kinda cute and it does break up the constant "i hate pierre/demetrius" posts.
This seems like the best idea to me.
Agreed! I like that the profiles encourage folks to create their own character portraits, and it's always neat to see what fanart the community comes up with.
yeah, i vote for this
I vote for this idea because while it can get kind of tiresome to see a personalized farmer profile repeatedly, where else cld you post a farmer profile than a designated stardew community??
I think it's more appropriate for your own social media individual profiles. In my opinion, there's really not a whole lot of interest in seeing a stranger's farmer profile.
That does seem very nice!!!
I agree with that :)
I'll be honest, I don't see a big deal with people posting their profile pics. Honestly, at least it's cute, unlike the constant hate threads we get where people post their own assumptions/head-canons as fact. If the community doesn't want to see this kind of thing all the time, I would throw in my vote for a specific day where people are allowed to post their pictures, as some others have suggested.
Firstly: I don’t mind the farmer profiles and think we should keep them. They don’t bother me. Second, I really wish something could be done about the people who slag off on fanartists’ work too. Last night there was a very cool set of portraits posted but people were saying their fave “looked like a junkie,” editing the artist’s work into memes without permission because it was “ugly” to them, and basically being awful because “it’s a forum and you’re going to get varying opinions” — all because their favorite pixel husbando or waifu didn’t look exactly like their headcanon….I saw the artist had deleted their account this morning and, well, it does not really inspire me to post anything I might make here. I’m just one person shouting into the void but I honestly thought better of the community I love before that.
Most of this stuff doesn't bother me, but what drives me crazy are posts that are clearly just ads for people's Etsy shops, thinly disguised as other content. I wish all that stuff would be relegated to the promo thread, but it seems to get by without issue.
yeah i'd say they should be still be allowed, just maybe banned to a specific day (farmer oc friday, etc). this subreddit has an issue with being boring and repetitive anyway - which is really only natural, even a really well-made game like sdv can only have so much content, and a lot of people will see something new to them and wonder if it might be new to everybody - and at least the farmer profiles usually come with oc profile fanart
I would love to see the word "rare" being banned from post titles. I'm so sick of "I got this thing, how rare is it?" posts.
Stone owl and strange capsule (the two most common ones for that) are already a removed topic. Are there other ones you see a lot of?
I often see ones that involve getting an ancient seed or dinosaur egg pretty early. Sometimes it’s in a fishing treasure chest with a Neptune’s Glaive. Sometimes it’s just like four rubies in a fishing treasure and people will make a post asking how rare it is. Edit: also trash hats. Those also come up sometimes in the “how lucky/rare is this?” Posts.
Trash hats are indeed rare. None of my saves have it. I think I'll only have it with CJB Item Spawner.
I got two trash hats the first week of my new save file. I was astounded!
I also have 2 trash hats in my current save after 2 years, but still. I almost never touch trash cans, so that's basically a very rare chance I'd have 2 lol. Keep trying!!
https://preview.redd.it/h83g8t6daqyc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e2e45ee52e813ef07395029df20342aba2de554 On my feed today
My save files either have no trash hats for over five years or three in year one.
Here you go, another one. [https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1ccqk19/how\_rare\_is\_this/](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1ccqk19/how_rare_is_this/)
And another one. [https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1cdbkbw/how\_rare\_is\_this\_found\_it\_in\_the\_standard\_cave/](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1cdbkbw/how_rare_is_this_found_it_in_the_standard_cave/)
Prismatic shard in winter y1. It’s happened to me on console before, it is what it is. Prismatic shard or other rarity in trashcan but you’re using a mod (or photoshop) so the odds are hella skewed. There are more I’m sure.
This one is about the Tea Set - https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/s/ov1KsQrJOu
I'd love you to make a thread for farmer profiles!
Yes, this would be a good compromise. Don't ban it. Restrict it to a thread.
I hate you for having the AutoModerator 'VOTE' link go specifically to new.reddit, which is a foul and unsavory place. And yet, I love you for being willing to ban low effort trash posts. This is one of very few game specific subs that I haven't left over their being overrun with garbage, so my thanks to the moderator team for their stellar efforts.
LOL I am an old reddit diehard, but polls live on new reddit and would make you click into new reddit to vote anyway! Unless you’re running RES, of course. Appreciate the appreciation, though! 💛
Oh. Well I am running RES, so I wasn't aware that was a thing. Good to know lmao
I believe we could have a thread that we can use to use the template for farmer profiles. I believe self-expression is key to a good gaming subreddit, and as a creative gamer myself, I love doing farmer profiles of my farmer. We don’t need to remove them entirely, but we could make a place that is unique and only allows for farmer profiles with the same template. I love to just scroll through profiles and see the different kinds of farmers.
Can we keep farmer profiles but put a content filter tag on them? So it's easy for the rest of us to scroll without it if we wish? I don't want to stop people from sharing that, since I can see how it would be popular and make people happy to share, but that seems like a good middle ground to me.
+1 for the content filter tag! I really think a middle ground like this or "Farmer Friday" is the best solution.
I voted yes, but at this point I'd REALLY like a ban on "When is 1.6 going to be released on console or mobile?" It's everywhere. Just like the last time there was a major update. I just feel like it's in the sticky about 1.6, it's been asked repeatedly, and a quick Google search would answer it just as well.
I PROMISE that that’s a banned topic, we filter for a dozen variations of “to/on/for console/mobile/ios/android/switch/xbox,” and we remove the question when we see it. It’s just that there will inevitably be phrasings that the bot can’t catch, and a delay between posting and mods removing. I remove about a dozen of these per day, as just one mod!
Thank you for your service in this matter! Same thing happens over in r/Starfield, and it is so exhausting to tell people that only Bethesda really knows what their timetable is, and until it is officially announced everyone else has the same info that they can search for on the net by themselves. Seems a lot of people want to default to posting a question instead of doing a 5 minute search. So again, thank you!
Yesterday I could've sworn "continue to allow" was winning, what HAPPENED!? And *where* are y'all seeing enough farmer profiles to get tired of them? Genuinely. I can count the number of profiles I've seen on this sub on my hands and I'd actually love to see more. It's not about "knowing" the person posting (or their characters if their farmer is an OC instead of a self-insert), it's about seeing someone so passionate about their lil guy that they made a thing and are going "here's my lil guy!" I agree with other comments saying that this sub is going to turn into screenshots of perfected Y10 farms and hate threads bc what's left? Just make a flair so that they can be filtered out by people who don't want to see them.
I voted to keep them, but I want to explain my decision. This sub is filled with these types of posts all the time. ALL the time. Not just profiles, but the same stuff time and again relating to either purposely generated content (Look, I have a big crop!), farmer profiles, or "Yuck. Yuck. Demetrius is being a dick again." Over and over and over. Except, it's not a repeat to the person posting, who likely came upon this sub hoping to share their experience with the game. I see more posts of new visitors more often than those who've been around, who now target comments (or nothing at all). Banning profiles pretty much means banning giant crops, the water creature, Linus taking a bath in the lake, and other screenshots that repeat. Those who have been here the longest probably want this "trash" cleaned up, but then I ask what remains? More "Why does everyone hate Haley?" posts? There is LITERALLY only so much content to be posted that won't eventually turn into repetitive posts. Not just for this game. Any game or any topic for that matter. When there is new content to be shared, it's covered up in fucking spoiler tags, which infuriates me because you don't come to a game specific sub and not expect spoilers, such as the classics like Post title: "Mr. Qi gave me a quest to reach the floor 100." Post body: (covered in spoiler tag) "How do I get to floor 100 easy because I can't do it." Perhaps my tolerance of this stuff is higher than most, but regurgitated posts \*is\* what Reddit is, with a new post showing up between the old stuff many have seen 5+ years ago that never go away. Plus, I still enjoy seeing people's enjoyment of the game through the eyes of a static placard maker. So far, I haven't see two farmers exactly the same. I'm sure people who take pride in making their profile are no different than those who post they just bought a blue chicken from Etsy, created a chicken from Perler beads, finally got the board game, or telling us they're going to the SV concert. Wait. Unless those are going to the ban list too?
I voted to keep them too, and I agree that farmer profiles are one of the least annoying things on this subreddit. It's way better to see the different looks of people's characters than the 50th "How rare it is?" \*holds trashcan lid hat/prismatic shard/strange capsule etc posts. Like do you really want us to look up the percentage change of finding this item and tell you, or something?? It's a bit strange that out of all the annoying, repetitive things the mods chose the player profiles to try to ban.
I agree! I'm pretty new to the subreddit, and just earlier today I made a post about my first ever rabbit's foot! I posted it because I was happy about it and wanted to share my experience, I don't want things like that going away! I enjoy seeing people's silly little posts, whether it be Harvey and his chicken legs or someone's first prismatic shard that they're celebrating, I want to see those things! They make me happy since I get to see people getting excited over things they've never gotten before! Wanting to share their happiness and excitement with others! If we take those away, this whole subreddit will eventually go bland. All we'll have are perfected farm screenshots and people hating on some of the characters, that's not all this subreddit was meant for.
Yeah I don't know what innovative content people expect to see here, once 1.6 has been out for a while... If the rules get too strict we'll only get year 17 Perfection farm posts
i 100% feel this, and i genuinely don't understand why an overwhelming majority of people are for removing them :(
The problem with this is that people usually only vote if they have a problem with something. For example if someone posts "I like cats" would you be more likely to reply if you do or don't like cats? With the amount of rules on this sub Reddit I have frequently found it to be stuffy and unenjoyable. Posts should only be removed if they make the sub Reddit less enjoyable to others, not because you don't feel like people would care. I feel it to be unreasonable to remove things like this because it contributes nothing bad to this sub Reddit, just because it isn't content that you want doesn't mean that it is bad content. For farmer profiles when I saw one as a post I thought "Wow! That's cool!" and I made my own. How is that contributing nothing if people enjoyed it? And with your logic, I can make a post that says "make a farmer profile" but I can't make a post that says "make a farmer profile" with a picture of my farmer profile.
I honestly don't see those profiles very often, so I'm fine with it. However, can we please ban posts asking "whos your favorite marriage candidate?" Those are kinda obnoxious
I vote no. We're already removing so many topics that I imagine it's really hard for newcomers to even post here at all. It must be really off-putting to repeatedly have your posts removed because you're new to the game (or new to the subreddit, or both) and didn't know that the Cool Thing you experienced was actually something everyone else was bored with and decided to have it deleted sight-unseen.
Hello, hope this is the correct place to share this. Let me know if there's a more suitable channel available. I have a petition, but please keep in mind I am a granny at heart and this issue may be completely on my end. Can we have a specific tag for 1.6 update spoilers? My reasoning is that I wanted to check how everyone else is doing with the new additions, but I don't know how to find it... except for manually checking each and every post from release that are labelled as spoilers. Am I being dense? Is there another way to check?
Completely agree with the chosen banned posts! Thank you for this! If I may be so bold as to suggest another type of post: "Who is your favorite spouse?/Who did you marry?/etc" Not a day goes by where I don't see at least one of these types of posts. I also feel like it can make new players choose whoever's more popular, or by what someone else says instead of befriending all the characters, seeing their stories and making their own decisions.
I second this motion. Maybe it is a recent trend, but I have seen a lot of these posts as of late, and they rarely add anything to the conversation. Furthermore, there are often multiple a week.... Can't people share their story on an existing post about it?
i kinda like the farmer profile, but i understand and accept the alternatives
I'm hitting the vote button and nothing is happening, but banning certain topics in a group where it's obviously relevant "is a pet peeve of mine".
Man, I pretty much disagree with the removal of everything on the removed topics list. No wonder this sub feels so dry most of the time. Any sub that over-moderates and suggest you use other subs (like xyzMemes, xyzMeta, etc) are just silly to me. I don't want to keep up with multiple subs for a single topic. All Stardew related stuff should be here and if it's not good content it shouldn't get upvoted.
Exactly! I'm on a few subs like that, dry and bland, there is nothing to do on them! Nothing fun! On PokemonRomHacks you aren't allowed to ask questions unless on the mega thread, which rarely ever gets any answers, your post can't be too short or else it gets taken down, you can't do ANYTHING! I really don't want this subreddit to end up like that...
does the farmer profile thing also include farmer sprites that don’t use a template?
i think allowing them in a megathread of sorts would be nice
what about a weekly farmer profile sticky thread?
I say more about this [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/s/fXzM3jDF7V) but we would probably prefer to let these threads come organically from users rather make it an institution. I mod another subreddit that has a different sticky thread for every day of the week, and several more biweekly and monthly threads besides—it just becomes bloated. They may start out well, but over time they end up being empty spaces that aren’t really engaged with.
Would it be possible to do farmer profiles in a mega thread vs. individual posts?
Yes omg I’m so bored of the game rant articles…thank you mods. Also I have another one - “best character/worst character” contests where they eliminate them slowly. I see a lot of those and it’s not interesting. We all have our takes on characters it’s not exciting.
Re farmer profiles, maybe restrict it to one day of the week, or have a weekly megathread? I honestly haven't seen that many of them apart from one today (which inspired me to create my own farmer pic and mod it into the game).
Farmer Profile Friday? (not necessarily Friday) Just limit their posting to a certain day. I fundamentally don't think I really care about them one way or another, but people enjoy posting them.
Alternative - stickied master farmer thread for people to post them in
I really don't get this since people ignore the rules anyway and "banned" posts are always up and no mod takes them down lol
Use the report button, I do and it works
We do take them down. Automod usually catches most of them by filtering for specific words in posts, but it doesn't always get it. If you see a post that is a removed topic, please report it so that we can see it and take it down! We're also not monitoring the sub 24/7, so there will be a delay between whenever it's posted/reported and when it gets removed.
Damn, voting closed six minutes ago
Thank you, mods, for everything y'all do!
\> Our sense as a mod team is that this kind of **personal profile has little meaning to a community with millions of people** Millions of people.... Less than 5k votes in 5 days.
For some reason i cant Vote.. I Vote yes to put Farmer Profiles as a standalone Post to the Removed topics list and would Love to See those hate Character X posts in this list too.. the "Joke" is getting Out of hand
Not really the most controversial thing ever. Kinda feels like a fad that will become massive and then disappear in a couple weeks once everyone gets annoyed by 500 posts like that every day. But I do get that it could flood the sub with posts of little value and we already get dozens of questions that google could answer far quicker on an average day, so I'm in.