In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the Court overturned the conviction of Clarence Brandenburg, a member of the Ku Klux Klan who had made inflammatory statements, by insisting that it would only punish advocacy that "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."
The Bradenburg “test” is still the principle used today to legally judge advocacy of violence. Imminent and produce being the key words here.
Per the rules which have been horrendously written. Rule 2: Do not engage in speech that promotes, advocates, glorifies, or endorses violence.
As there is no context provided for what constitutes “violence” I’m going to start reporting every comment since words can fall under violence. As people here regularly play games, any mention of any game that contains violence, real or imaginary, must be removed as the display of violence is promoting of it. Any media that has glorified or promoted violence will also not be permitted as to reference to them would also promote violence.
I would highly encourage DoM or AoV to rewrite rule 2 and 16. As it would only take a few people tired of the subjective subjugation to start spamming reports.
I think we need to hold a constitutional convention to form an entirely new ruleset. As I understand it, here are very few rules actually required by the communities.win team that would be required as a baseline, but downvotes explicitly exist as a means of the community moderation to some extent, so aside from what is required I'd prefer a pretty minimal restriction on what can be posted in a comment. I'm in favor of being somewhat more restrictive on posts (to reduce spam and maintain topicality), but I still lean toward "only what rules are necessary."