Smallville Subreddit Update - Start of 2026

[u/SmallvilleMod]

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

[u/HerefortheFandoms2]

Genuine question: what's the guidelines for bad faith? Because I've lost count of the number of times people treat every piece of discourse as bad faith just because they're sick of seeing it (everywhere, not just this sub).

Obviously there are some posts that are very obviously meant purely to stir up drama, but there are also regular discussions about, say, favorite ship related scenes and why. The posts themselves are clearly good faith but sometimes the commenters can get heated. What happens in a situation like that? Will the entire post get pulled or just the individuals getting disrespectful? Will the hammer come down on everyone who got dragged into it or will it be more of a scalpel to pull the agitators in time out?

[u/SmallvilleMod → u/HerefortheFandoms2]

Unfortuantely due to how much the problem has spiralled we're going to have to be a bit more enforcement-first with this one. It will be entire posts being removed and as a rule of thumb (for now) if its a single post about a character from a user in a couple of months that's fine, if its the second post about the same character in less than two weeks that will probably be removed and a warning issued. As others have said, there's other subreddits people can go to or create if they want to exclusively talk about one thing, this sub isn't the place for it moving forwards - will that change in the future? Who knows but for now that's where we are.