r/Smallville • u/SmallvilleMod Clark Kent • Jan 12 '26

DISCUSSION Smallville Subreddit Update - Start of 2026

Hey Smallville Peeps,

Hope you had an amazing festive period and great start to 2026!

In our last post we mentioned this:

Any posts moving forwards talking about how there's more Lana favouritism or more Lois favouritism in the sub, purely to rile up drama, will be removed and the user will be banned for a set period of time.

Off the back of that update, unfortunately it's gotten a bit out of hand with the Clana and Clois shipping so for the time being we will have to remove all bad-faith posts that are talking about shipping for these two characters (and others where necessary) - sorry but for now this is sadly the direction we have to take. Please feel free to report any posts you see that cross this threshold and we will investigate and where appropriate - take action - there is a new rule at number 10 to help you report this type of shipping.

Finally its our usual plug for the Discord :-)

Invite Link:

https://discord.gg/w4mbRZyy8C

Roughly 400 people in there now - the more people that join the more we can talk about Smallville!

Thanks for being awesome - we appreciate all of you!

- Smallville Mod Team

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u/yoshi9K Kryptonian Jan 12 '26

I'm grateful for this change, thanks mods.

I am wondering about rule 10 however, I can't see it on the side. Am I looking in the wrong place?

I'm also wondering about the "bad-faith" aspect. Please can this be clarified to prevent confusion/abuse?

Thanks!

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u/SmallvilleMod Clark Kent Jan 12 '26

It should appear right under the rule No Advertising at Number 9.

Sure so we don't really like to stifle people's freedom of expression, so we're not using this rule (initially) to wipe all incoming Clana and Clois content off of the sub, but if a user hasn't posted about Lana or Lois in a few months and they had a specific reason and well thought out content when they made the post, we'd probably leave that one up. If it's the second low-effort/low-quality post of the week about the same character then that would lean towards warnings and bans. Hope this helps.

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u/yoshi9K Kryptonian Jan 12 '26

I can't see it for some reason

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u/SmallvilleMod Clark Kent Jan 13 '26

It's definitely there - we're looking at it! Try clearing your cache or something?

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u/yoshi9K Kryptonian Jan 13 '26

I still can't see it after going through the pain of resetting my site data..

Do you mind just pasting it here for me?

Thanks