No complaining about the ground rules.



No complaining about the critic's motivations for making this critique video. Or anyone's motivations for anything.



Speculating about motives is banned forever.



No complaining about the critic insulting writers after insulting their work or something about their work.



No saying "This critic complains about the lack of information this episode gave us. However, later episodes answered the questions that episode left us with, SO THERE!", because that is the dumbest thing.



No mentioning Monty Oum. He is awesome.



No insulting me for posting this.



No insulting the critic for posting this.



If the critic is wrong, you can explain why he's wrong without needing to rage or use insults.



No complaining about video length. He talks slowly, so just use a youtube-accelerating browser plugin.



No mentioning popularity or success.



No acting like a Steven Universe fangirl.



You can still like RWBY even if this review exists. I can agree with some of its points and still love the show as a whole. I do.



I love RWBY, anyone that says otherwise gets blocked. Talk with your keys, not your votes. If you downvote me too much, I can only respond to questions/comments once every 10 minutes and that makes holding DISCUSSION AND CONVERSATIONS harder.



(Thanks Havlety!) No complaining about the thumbnail. It never comes up and doesn't even matter.



(Wow, NightsWatch, didn't think I'd need to add this one to the list) No claiming the critic in this video is the same person as me. Christ, there's grasping at straws, then there's what you're doing. DISCUSS THE VIDEO, NOT ME.By the way, blocked and reported. No, disagreeing with your idiotic assumption is not evidence that it's right. Here, let me explain: You're a pedophile, you're a rapist, your parents raped you when you were a kid, and you pirate video games. If you disagree with that statement, you're "Defensive" and that means I'm right. Haha, too bad, your non-logic goes both ways. Now fuck off.



I mean no offense toward the person who came up with the ground rules. This is merely a joke fic playing off the ground rules meme. To the one who came up with the ground rules, if you’re reading this, I don’t think anyone holds any offense toward you. Feel free to come back to r/RWBY and be proud you made a joke for us all to enjoy, even if it was unintentional. Also, to anyone else, if you weren't on the RWBY subreddit on July 21st, 2017, you may not get the joke. This is what happened.It was the darkest of days in the RWBY subreddit. The lurkers, the posters, and the shitposters alike all watched as the terrors of the hiatus unfolded. There were happy times, such as Pennybot and Velvetbot admitting their true love for eachother. But for every good time, there were many bad. Macros were frequent. Theories got to a point where reaching didn’t even begin to describe how people came up with that shit. BMBLB threatened to tear the subreddit apart. Hell, people started asking if Blake eating her clones would be considered cannibalism or not!I digress.But even in the darkest of times, there is always hope. The RWBY subreddit needed order during the hiatus. And with the 16 Commandments of Discussion, that order was found.They woke up on an ordinary hiatus day. Little did they know that while browsing fan art, they would stumble upon the birth of a legend. For you see, discussion posts on r/RWBY are not to be taken lightly. It only takes one poor comment for a discussion to get heated. Every day, the mods must work hard to keep us from starting a war over fictional characters.What does this have to do with the 16 Commandments of Discussion? Well, let’s talk about ground rules. A simple concept: setting basic principles for a scenario that people are expected to follow. Ground rules are needed in order to get anything done. Say you’re playing a game of Mario Kart. There’s simple ground rules that people follow if they want order in the game: don’t ragequit, don’t insult people, don’t use blue shells, ect. It is thanks to these ground rules that the system doesn’t fall apart.That brings us back to the RWBY subreddit. It has its own ground rules. Don’t harass, don’t be racist, sexist, ect, don’t spoil new content, don’t troll, all that stuff. But when the hiatus was at its deepest points, these rules could not save the RWBY subreddit. People found ways to make posts that were allowed, but were so ridiculously stupid that everyone on the subreddit lost their minds more and more with every post. It was getting to be too much. When the rules of the RWBY subreddit failed to save us, everything was going to fall apart.Until the 16 Commandments of Discussion.On that fateful day, a wandering traveler stumbled upon our humble abode. This person, unaware of the craziness plaguing the subreddit, made a simple post. The hounds descended.The post threatened to be overrun with hiatus fever, something everyone who spent even a small time on the RWBY subreddit had caught by that point. It didn’t take long for this person to realize something had to be done to keep things in order. And so, they established the ground rules:And thus, the RWBY subreddit found enlightenment. The ground rules were carefully studied by r/RWBY’s best scholars. Minutes upon minutes were spent understanding the potential these ground rules had. It didn’t take long for those who understood the glory of the ground rules to realize that they needed a name fitting of their stature. And thus, these ground rules were named the 16 Commandments of Discussion.The subreddit rejoiced. Posts were made to celebrate the creation of the 16 Commandments of Discussion. The one who brought the Commandments upon the RWBY subreddit was flooded with gold coins as thanks for all they had done.The 16 Commandments of Discussion were immediately put under effect. When posting or making comments, people used them as guidance. Just as hiatus fever threatened to taint a post, the Commandments intervened, keeping the subreddit pure.No one knows what happened to the person who brought the RWBY subreddit its ground rules, it’s 16 Commandments of Discussion, its law. Some say they roam other subreddits of shows on hiatus to bring them order as well. Others say they retired and now live peacefully in the woods. Some even think they live among us, shitposting with the best of them.Everyone agrees on one thing: with the 16 Commandments of Discussion guiding the RWBY subreddit, it will make it through the hiatus.And so shitposting was solved forever.The end.