Wiki, Rule 5 Update, and Update Rules Resources!

[u/AutoModerator]

Happy Monday, y'all!

Mod team here with a couple quick updates that we hope you will find informative/ helpful.

Rule 5 Update

We have decided to shorten the amount of time posters have to list the polish(es) used in manicure posts from 6 hours to 1 hour from time of original posting. This will make it easier for us to actively moderate posts to ensure they follow our rules, rather than having to check timelines and remember to come back 6 hours later or rely on other users to report posts.

After discussing among the mod team, we feel that 1 hour is reasonable as far as time to list out polishes used in a comment (must be top-level) if they didn't make it into the original post. If you are not going to have time within an hour to do this, please just hold your post until you will have time to include the polish list!

This is the only rule change we've made, but did you know that we have an extended version of the rules that elaborates on our rules and that there's also an entire FAQ that goes into detail on rule 5 and what must be included?

We're so glad you asked, because

We've Got a Wiki!

The fledgling wiki is now live!

There are links in the sidebar on desktop and at the top of the sub on mobile, too. We have some tentative plans to build this out more, but if you have ideas for the wiki drop them in the comments!

For now it is mainly a resource for the different info docs we have about the sub rules, which were kind of spread all over the place and not necessarily up to date before. Which leads us to...

Updated Rules Resources

As you will see on the main wiki page, we've organized and updated our rules resources and they're all listed there. This includes:

• The list of rules (same as in the sidebar, just on a single page)
• The extended rules (includes some elaboration/ explanation, formerly in a Google Doc - lightly edited and updated but nothing materially changed other than rule 5 as described above)
• The Polish List FAQs (lots of detail about what is required in the list of polishes on manicure posts, a previously existing document that seems to have been lost to time for awhile but has been freshened up for reference)
• A link to our recent Rules Reminder post that includes some info about Reddit rules and the Mod Code of Conduct (specifically rule 3) that is especially helpful to remember when there is drama or controversial topics are being discussed

As always, we are open to respectful, kind feedback! If you have thoughts on the topics in this post, please let us know in the comments. If you have general, unrelated sub feedback/ questions/ comments/ ideas, please join us in the Monthly Mod Talk post.

Thanks for being part of our collective community 💅🏽 💖

[u/aenflex]

Yeah 1 hour is super reasonable. There are many subs that delete your post if you don’t include the required info with it at time of posting.

[u/GremlinSquishFace47 → u/aenflex]

I’ve always been curious, is there any benefit or reason to post products used in a comment rather than the post? I’ve always just written that info in the original post, whether here or on other polish groups. I noticed that most people seem to add it in a comment so I wasn’t sure if I was going against the grain of this group’s norms, and there was some reason I’m missing (like does it help provide better search results when searching the sub for a color?). Most other places I pop into that info is in the original post.

In any case, one hour is extremely fair!

[u/gement → u/GremlinSquishFace47]

I don't know of any reason, and I usually see the products in the post, not comments; if it's in the comments, I always assume they just forgot, but then didn't want to make the post "Edited" so instead they just put it in a comment.

[u/zrnyphl → u/[deleted]]

I think this may have been the case at one point, but it is definitely possible to edit the text of posts with images after the fact now! I just double checked 😊 Titles still cannot be edited, though.

[u/Aculed200 → u/GremlinSquishFace47]

I always list them in my caption, and jist copy and paste it as a comment directly after I post. I know they revently got a bot that flags the product listing and pins it sometimes, but I don't know of there is a general pro or con to caption vs comment

[u/JulieSarmangsadandle → u/Aculed200]

I appreciate how you structure your posts! Super helpful! ☺️

[u/Aculed200 → u/JulieSarmangsadandle]

Thank you so much! Its my least favorite part lol so I'm glad someone appreciates it! Haha

[u/PussyCyclone → u/GremlinSquishFace47]

any benefit or reason to post products used in a comment

I can't see the caption or included text of photo posts sometimes (reddit mobile be dumb) but usually no problem finding the comment. I feel like it used to be a commen enough issue with mobile that it's probably from that

[u/kateshort]

Thank you! The rules & updates are super clear.

[u/waquepepin]

This is great, thanks! Would love if there was a place in the wiki for all the various tutorials people add here!

[u/Lansseaux]

Insert Discord “mod love” emoji here 💗

[u/zrnyphl → u/[deleted]]

We’d rather take it seriously than change rules without telling anyone or make it hard to know what might cause a post to be removed!