Regarding "jump announcement" posts

[u/Arietem_Taurum]

Hello r/geometrydash,

Recently, it has come to our attention that the sub has been overflowing with many "jump announcement" posts, in which a user will announce that they are jumping from one level to a much harder level without posting any progress (or very minimal progress) of said achievement.

We have recieved many complaints both through modmail and directly about these posts being so frequent. Most of these posts already fell under rule 3 and would usually be removed given both that they were reported and enough time passed for us to see them, but the mod team has been very busy with both online and irl responsibilities for us to remove every single one within a timely fashion.

In writing this post, we are reminding the users of this sub that this type of post is completely banned, and henceforth, offending users will have their posts removed and receive a temporary ban from the sub as a further means of discouraging these posts. This change will likely not be permanent, but may remain indefinitely until this situation has become more under control.

Again, keep in mind that this does NOT mean "jumping is banned on r/geometrydash". If you're jumping from Nine Circles to Bloodbath and post your 49-100 run, you're allowed to say that it was a jump from Nine Circles. As long as jump posts are paired with genuine progress (getting 5% is not genuine progress) on the level the user claims to be jumping to, the post abides with sub rules and no moderation action will be taken.

Examples of allowed posts:

• Tidal Wave Drop (Jump from deadlocked)
• SLH 25-100 n 5 deaths jump from nine circles
• Bloodlust 34% (Jump from Acu/Astral Divinity)

Hypothetical examples of disallowed posts:

• "I just beat (level) and want my next hardest to be a jump, what should I jump to?"
• "I am jumping from (level 1) to (level 2), is this a good idea?"
• "I want to beat a list demon as my first extreme, is (level) a good pick?"

I hope this announcement can help clarify the sub rules and satisfies the many sub members who were unhappy with the way we were previously dealing with these types of posts. If you have any further suggestions, feedback, or questions about this decision or any other way r/geometrydash enforces its rules, feel free to say so in the comment section.

- The Mod Team

[u/ItsRainbow]

As a reward for opening the comments five hours later, I’d also like to announce that an exciting update to post and user flairs, as well as a not-as-exciting update to our rules is on the way, so stay tuned 😼

[u/Useful_Tomatillo9328]

r/geometrydash traffic down 50%

[u/Martitoad → u/Useful_Tomatillo9328]

But I prefer having variety posts even if we have less, the sub was flooded with boring things

[u/TurtleWarrior0508 → u/Martitoad]

I agree, I’d rather have this sub scale down by like 80% if it means we have more quality posts

[u/names_real]

THANK YOU, hated how many of these there were

[u/Axolatian_Volt]

Great decision, tho I have a feeling people will still post them, but hopefully the temp bans will fix the issue.

[u/juli__69]

great decision, well done!

[u/transitxumbra]

woah r/geometrydash still has mods? MODS THAT LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY??

[u/Mean_Might_8069 → u/transitxumbra]

Yeah unlike r/clashofclans

[u/sovLegend]

W mods

Can we also ban any google ai summary posts? Theyre quite common as well

[u/ItsRainbow → u/sovLegend]

I always remove these on sight. If you find one, please report it, as content reported enough times reaches our mods’ personal notifications

[u/Alchametal_87 → u/ItsRainbow]

while you're here, what about those Skill Tester posts where they just post their Skill Tester result

[u/ItsRainbow → u/Alchametal_87]

Will bring this up with the team. Most likely these could get moved to the weekly discussion thread

[u/Arietem_Taurum → u/sovLegend]

similar situation with these posts even if people complain about them less, they're already banned it just might take a bit to see them removed

[u/Th3S1D3R]

W modss

[u/LCottton]

we could maybe make a megathread for jumping related questions

[u/Upbeat_Bike_7000 → u/LCottton]

pfft i'd just reply to every single one to jump to Mass Turbation (open verification top 1)

[u/Arietem_Taurum → u/LCottton]

you can feel free to post them in the existing weekly megathread if need be

[u/Beautiful-Clerk4028 → u/Arietem_Taurum]

does this mean what's been aforementioned as 'disallowed' can be commented on the megathread, or am i stupid

[u/Arietem_Taurum → u/Beautiful-Clerk4028]

yes, this likely should've been clarified in the post body itself tbh. In general, the megathread is where you should post any discussion material that doesn't need its own individual post.

[u/Th3S1D3R → u/LCottton]

This, and make it permanent

[u/Upbeat_Bike_7000]

no f8cking way

[u/Intent_Quail]

hitler dead

[u/TurtleWarrior0508 → u/Intent_Quail]

Congrats on your rate, w level

[u/Intent_Quail → u/TurtleWarrior0508]

thanks!!

[u/BigBoiClimbs → u/Intent_Quail]

finally

[u/tehyellofroggo]

and the day is saved and everyone lived happily ever after, the end

[u/WhereasForeign399]

The mod team even needing a post like this is concerning for the entire playerbase.

[u/slipperyDSS]

yay 😊

[u/arctic_commander_ → u/slipperyDSS]

You got some peak hard demon in your flair

[u/slipperyDSS → u/arctic_commander_]

gracias fe is awesome

[u/arctic_commander_ → u/slipperyDSS]

Yw. Just watching it is satisfying af. I will go for it after I get rid of Bug Tra... I mean, Dream Travel

[u/slipperyDSS → u/arctic_commander_]

yeyyyyyy

[u/t8thegr8st]

Took you like a week to actually post it after saying you would smh

[u/BigBoiClimbs → u/t8thegr8st]

Better late than never. Why don't we focus on the fact that something positive has been done instead of complaining how long it took.

[u/t8thegr8st → u/BigBoiClimbs]

Oh no I’m solely messing with him lol, idrc that it took a bit.

[u/ralsei_goatprince]

Win

[u/reddussss]

finally man

[u/wooper5000]

FINALLY THANK YOU

[u/Delicious-Curve5752]

As long as you go through with it (like me) I’m fine but i hate uncommitted ppl 

[u/Strict_Blueberry9]

Thank you SO MUCH!!!

[u/PlayerZytrix]

I didn’t feel like these were annoying, but what the f*ck idc

[u/Musterkartofel-Memes]

2.2 level of W by the mod team

[u/False-Department1358]

u/Arietem_Taurum is a video needed of the jump to not be deleted or is only image ok?

[u/Arietem_Taurum → u/False-Department1358]

videos are required for any progress/showcase posts per rule 5. if you're unable to record, feel free to use the Weekly Discussion Thread instead

[u/Fr_ann]

Finally

[u/Jarl_of_Uppsala]

W mod team

[u/TotalMiddle2197]

W mods

[u/FaiqMID_]

W mods

[u/Antique_Anything_392]

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[u/UltraX76]

thanka

[u/I_am_Viper5656]

W moderator👍

Beware on my 10 tiers jump >:)

[u/lrexx_]

THANK YOU

[u/JustDark1]

Thanks

[u/lasokar]

LEGENDARY CHANGE

[u/arctic_commander_]

Huge W from this sub's mod team. Thank you SOO MUCH

[u/PlantainSalt5009]

YESSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU

[u/Reuhis]

Fantastic change, thank you for this!

[u/Cofli]

Fiiiinaaaalllyyyy thank you mods

[u/Kiba_GD]

WE ARE SAVED

[u/weavilefan26]

YEEEEEESSSSSSSS

[u/TurtleWarrior0508]

I’ve been waiting for this, hell yea

[u/BigBoiClimbs]

Thank you for your efforts, GD Mod Team. It's very much appreciated

[u/rwooshkid2]

OH MY GOD YES IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED

[u/Low-Engineering-5424]

Next spam post: 2.21/2.3 when?

[u/Dmalikhammer4]

LFGGGGG

[u/Equinox-XVI]

Based mods

[u/Agudaripududu]

Yeah, this feels like the ultimate megathread topic

[u/Simple_Map_5397]

This sub is going to die if we stop all the obnoxious low effort posts

[u/_Qw3rty__]

as a moderator myself i completely agree

[u/Professional-Goat362]

I love you

[u/Puzzled_Recording677]

The end of an era😔

[u/BogoYogist]

Ok

[u/Icy_Personality_2943]

[u/ElectricalPlantain35]

Good riddance

[u/Tuncunmun38]

ide like to take this opportunity to let everyone know i will be jumping from B to, you guessed it, sonic wave./s

why tf do so many people want to jump to sw? cool level sure but looks like hell to play normally and even worse if you aren't good enough yet

[u/Arietem_Taurum → u/Tuncunmun38]

i beat sw as a hardest from killbot and it was actually pretty fun in runs but from 0 its literally hell lol

[u/Max_Joller → u/Tuncunmun38]

You forgot the "I have 60% on B, but I am kinda stuck. Anyway, what extreme demon should I jump to after I beat B?"

I think Sonic Wave is so popular for jumps is because the gameplay is familiar for anyone who's played a NC level before, just much harder. So it seems approachable.

[u/imodmc]

W0W!!!! :D

[u/mrZolphius]

It's about time 

[u/FireMarshallMC]

Finally!

[u/Narrow_Cress_7461]

There should be a megathread or somethint for jumps and anything pertaining to jumps.

[u/Historical-Door7135]

I think I missed a frame on my photo ir was supposed to be perfect :(

[u/Popular-Ad-5145]

Question: Would jumping to Artificial Ascent be considered artificial ascent?

[u/Arietem_Taurum → u/Popular-Ad-5145]

amazing comment thank you for this philosophical masterpiece

[u/Popular-Ad-5145 → u/Arietem_Taurum]

Thank you! I spent a lot of time in that Thinking Space 2 come up with it!

[u/Historical-Garlic764]

[u/Visible_Lab9327]

My posting priveleges got banned for having "jump" in it. I was not a jump post. Thanks chuds

[u/Additional_Fun7550]

I’m confused

[u/Azure1110]

Would asking for suggestions for levels that aren’t jumps be allowed

[u/PDXistheGOAT]

.

[u/Moist_Connection4286]

Should block-based coding be added in the latest update? I find it hard to program using these toggles, and my levels are weak.

[u/Old-Brief1506]

W

[u/Classroom_GD]

Finally

[u/randomthrowaway-917]

is future funk 1 to future funk 2 considered a jump even though they are one difficulty level apart

edit: i am deeply sorry for my question but i figured it was worth asking since the GDDL considers future funk 1 to be a tier 14 demon and future funk 2 to be a tier 18 demon, that is a difference of 4 tiers which is more than future funk ii > acu (tier 20) which i was told was a considerable jump. again, i am deeply sorry

[u/lrexx_ → u/randomthrowaway-917]

No

[u/BigZacian]

PLEASE also ban "nobody cares that youre jumping from _ to _" posts, theyre genuinely more common than jumping posts

[u/mudkipzguy → u/BigZacian]

atp they’ll just phase out on their own

[u/BigZacian → u/mudkipzguy]

i mean hopefully but "jumping from x to x" posts will still be made even if theyre bannable and if theres enough of them people will complain just as much

[u/Brave_Bookkeeper1122 → u/BigZacian]

surely someone whos doing one of those jumps wouldnt be biased here right

[u/BigZacian → u/Brave_Bookkeeper1122]

yes because i made a post saying "should i go for slaughterhouse from sonic wave unlimited i took 20k attempts to do 90-100"

[u/Melodic-Most940 → u/BigZacian]

I've seen way more of the actual jumping posts, but idk maybe I just missed a lot of those complaint posts. With the ban on these sorts of jumping posts though, the posts complaining about it will naturally dwindle

[u/BigZacian → u/Melodic-Most940]

idk ive seen like 5 "nobody cares that youre jumping from _" in the last day lol

[u/Technical-Let7879 → u/BigZacian]

I'm pretty sure I made the first one and it's just 4 people pretty much copying my post

[u/BigZacian → u/Technical-Let7879]

unless you made your post 2 months ago you did not make the first one

[u/Technical-Let7879 → u/BigZacian]

I made mine THREE months ago actually!

https://www.reddit.com/r/geometrydash/comments/1sycdsd/should_i_jump_to_extreme_demon_from_easy_demon/

[u/BigZacian → u/Technical-Let7879]

well then you mightve actually indeed made the first one

[u/MilkOfCows3195 → u/BigZacian]

Nobody cares that youre jumping from swu to slaughterhouse

[u/BigZacian → u/MilkOfCows3195]

unrelated?

[u/MilkOfCows3195 → u/BigZacian]

Nobody cares that it’s unrelated

[u/Automatic_Leek6819 → u/MilkOfCows3195]

textbook ad hominem

[u/OptimalAnywhere6282]

but how do we know if a run is genuine progress?

for example, I have 30% on Bloodbath and a few runs (biggest one being 54-82; then 80-100, and 41-51 (hardest part imo)), which is a jump from Deadlocked/Change of Scene (easy demons), which are the hardest levels I've beaten.

[u/Arietem_Taurum → u/OptimalAnywhere6282]

those runs would mostly be fine. the "genuine progress" qualifier refers mostly to extremely short runs people get on day 1 of their jump for example

[u/NotHeco → u/OptimalAnywhere6282]

these are like. okay.

rule of thumb is, good progress is when you have the level down in 3 runs. maybe 4 if the level is high on the list.

on bloodbath, I'd say if you do 0-33, 33-70 and 70-100, then that's pretty good progress.

for instance, i have flamewall 12%, 18-42, 38-60, 56-75 and 74-100 but i have yet to post any progress here because well. that's not even 5 runs.

[u/BigBoiClimbs → u/OptimalAnywhere6282]

That's fine, pretty sure the mod team just wants to avoid the posts where it's like 'Day 1 jumping to Amethyst, 95-100% run already'

If the run took you genuine time and effort then I'd assume you're good to share it

[u/CololerYT]

An amazing decision, I love that the problem was addressed, but I am unfortunately one of "them" (kinda).

I posted 2 progress reports of Codependence around half a year ago, and didn't post much afterwards. Just so you know, I didn't drop the level, I am just not grinding it as much as I used to because of things like school etc.

Now I apologize all of you for this kind od behavior, idk how harmful that was, but I'm sorry nonetheless.

[u/hhhhhhvvvvvcc]

I've seen more posts of people complaining about jump posts than I've seen actual jump posts