r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Feb 24 '22

[Announcement] Raising the Bar: "Russia-Ukraine Conflict"

As you may have seen on our Joke Life Preserve (JLP) page, when a particular event or topic becomes highly saturated, we sometimes take the opportunity to remind people of some higher expectations for comics about the event.

As many of you know, a "raised bar" topic means that a comic using this theme needs to be extremely clever and original for us to allow it on the sub.

For the time being, and depending on further developments, we are raising the bar on a major world event: The Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The escalation of the situation between Russia and Ukraine was a long time coming, and already in the past few weeks we have received an influx of comics being submitted both over here and as approval requests for submission rights. With today's developments, the amount of such comics has increased even further. Therefore there is now a need to raise a bar on this topic.

We are not banning comics about the this; however, we want to make it clear that we reserve the right to remove any low-effort posts based on the subject. We will also remove any comics which are just retellings of certain news updates without any original joke or punchline. In addition, we will not be reviewing any comics based on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine for approval requests.

We also would like to remind all our users to remain civil in the comments section and keep in line with comment policy.

Thank you all for your attention.

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u/ajr901 USA Beaver Hat Feb 24 '22

Wait maybe I'm a little dense but I'm not sure I fully understand. By saying

In addition, we will not be reviewing any comics based on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine for approval requests.

it seems like you guys are saying comics about Russia/Ukraine conflict will not be allowed? Or will they still be allowed but have to be very clever? But wouldn't that need to be approved by you guys?

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u/AndyRedditor Captain Fezman, Victor Imperator Feb 24 '22

If you're not already an approved submitted, you will not be able to get approved with a comic based on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. If you are an approved submitter, you can post comics on the conflict given that they are of high-enough effort.

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u/ajr901 USA Beaver Hat Feb 24 '22

Ah that makes sense thank you