I was reading the Rules page for simpleplanes.com and came across the following rule:
We allow a wide variety of uploads that are not actually airplanes. However, we do reserve the right to remove posts if they are too far off-topic.
What is an example of something that would be too off topic? I have never seen something that seems to violate this rule, and don’t know what it would apply to.
Off-topic posts are too vague to classify. They are allowed and as the rules state, there is a threshold for how 'off-topic' a post can be.
For convenience, I will classify forums similar as build posts.
Off-topic posts often happen in the forums section as uploading something to the website still counts as playing the game and thus a contribution to the airplane section of the site unless it's way too bland or had no effort put into it at all (e.g. a label part that has words in it and nothing else). Although I should say this mostly count as 'spam' rather than off-topic posts, but they can be.
As for the forums, oh do I have a lot of basis for you. Forum posts in recent times have become a nest for wanna-be social media influencers. There's a handful of users treating and 'abusing' this vague rule where they post forums not really on-topic to SimplePlanes (e.g. random forum about this/that or a forum about questions no one really cares about). Of course, things like these are allowed but if that's the majority of your account's posts section, then it's safe to assume that a report is valid for such posts as they could count as off-topic spamming (stated by the rules: "-However, we do reserve the right to remove posts if they are too far off-topic.")
TLDR, Post whatever you like as off-topic posts are allowed, but be mindful to not stray too much away from plane-related topics (or any buildable vehicles) . Make sure that these posts also follow the written rules as well as rules a sane human being would think as proper.
And most importantly, The forums is NOT a social media platform. It is not Twitter/X, it is not Facebook, it is a forum section of a plane-focused sandbox game. If you were to make an off-topic post, make sure that it's sparse when seen in your account.
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at the end of the day it's at the moderator's discretion, but typically it applies to low effort stuff that's not related to simpleplanes or aviation, and/or excessively inflammatory posts that are off topic and usually also low effort
i think i have an example, i remember getting in my jet stream the i bought a property in egypt meme, i think it was very off topic and then it was removed
i now have this same question, let the mods answer us....
@MrSilverWolf