Hi everyone, absentee mod here! Looking to not be so absentee going forward.
When this magazine was kicked off, it was essentially cloned from the SquaredCircle subreddit. However, a lot of rules there were put in place because of the immense volume of traffic – the sub needed curation to weed out a bunch of meh posts and those who were karma-seeking. But we don’t need to mirror that, and in fact, it may be better to open the doors a bit so that more people feel comfortable posting new threads.
We wouldn’t be looking to change the rules related to civility, trolling, hate speech, or spoilers. But feel free to leave your feedback on your thoughts on these other rules:
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Derailing a thread: I’m not sure that rule is needed – if the conversation becomes uncivil, that’s its own rule broken.
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Low effort: we’re not enforcing this much now as it stands with low volume, but give your thoughts on post quality concerns. Personally I wouldn’t want to keep single responses that are easily found on a Google search, but beyond that, where to draw the line?
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Memes: some people love that r/SC didn’t allow them and kept them contained to another subreddit. Do you have thoughts on memes?
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Not related to wrestling: we could change this definition. Politics are allowed on r/SC. Personal photos with wrestlers are not. Where would you like to see the line drawn?
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Clickbait/vague titles: do you want to see those continue to be removed? This somewhat falls under the quality discussion.
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Sexualized content: I don’t see this changing (as in, none) but hey, let your thoughts known
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Sources: I think we should keep the same sources banned as on r/SC because they have harassed and doxxed users in the past – they’re banned for everyone’s benefit. The other rule was “link to the primary source” instead of an article/tweet quoting another article, with the exception being original transcripts of podcasts. Any thoughts on this?
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Any rules we don’t have but should?
Feel free to voice any other opinions (I know there have been conversations about mods in general, I’m working on that) but moderating starts with rules, so let’s hear your thoughts!
I think most of the rules are great. Personally, I don’t want to see any clickbait or ratings related articles. That stuff seems to introduce negativity and I’ve found this place to be pretty positive/relaxed so far. I really wouldn’t want to see that change.
When it comes to low-effort posts and memes: I think a good solution would be to reserve those sort of posts for the “microblog” section of the ‘subreddit.’ We could designate the “threads” section for articles, discussion threads, and high-quality posts and designate the “microblog” section for low-effort posts, memes, and such. That could give us the best of both worlds. Just a thought.
I do have one question, though: the fediverse seems pretty easy going when it comes to pirated/illegal streams. If someone asks for a link, and we provide one, would we be banned?
I’m seconding the no rating threads. They bring nothing good.
Thirded. Forgot they even exist tbh and it’s been nice.
I am learning more about this every day - the microblogging area sounds perfect for the low effort stuff. We can discuss what we do and don’t allow in terms of low effort but that is great potential for keeping things cleaner.
As for the pirated/illegal streams - I’ll investigate if the host has an issue with it (as this “lives” on kbin.social, so that would be like “the admins” on Reddit). Considering I enjoy sailing the high seas myself I’d be open to it, if it’s allowed.
Pirated streams and such seem to be okay. The creator of kbin (@Ernest) is the owner and mod of the largest pirating “mag” on the fediverse. I’d be surprised if he took issue. But like @JelloBrains mentioned, if we do that then we should probably encrypt links and what not. I’m no expert on that kind of thing but Jello seems to be.
And one last thing: I reported something weird on the microblog yesterday. Seems to be a poorly photoshopped ad for male android enhancements (bottom of first page).
Thanks, I got rid of that… weirdness, lol. It really is tough moderating the way it’s set up today.
I do agree with encrypting if we ultimately give it the green light.
I certainly don’t have an opinion about the microblogging stuff and I don’t mind if it’s here or not but just letting you know, since there might be other people in the situation who do mind, that I don’t think the microblogging stuff for this community/magazine/subreddit/whatever you call it will carry over to Lemmy.
(I’m not saying it to be a stickler or anything but just wanted to FYI in case it was important for others) :)
I’m a little late to the discussion, but easing the restrictions on low effort content and personal photos on the microblog section sounds like a great idea.