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OK, here's the first second draft of the new rules. Everyone made thoughtful contributions - thank you.
- Do not advocate for illegal violence or post other illegal activity. (Be aware of your local laws.)
- Don't be a fag, a psycho, or anything else that breaches the community's standard of conversation. New users will be held to a higher standard.
- Do not post porn.
- NSFW content must be flaired NSFW.
- No vote manipulation. Do not break communities.win's features.
- No spam or reposts. Do not make more than 5 posts a day.
- Do not post falsehoods and hoaxes that are obvious to an uncontroversial degree.
Notes:
- R16 has to go. That much is obvious. Anyway, the mod team is already diverse by 4chan's standard, not reddit's.
- "illegal violence" might seem redundant, but there are a million cases of civil/legal advocacy of violence, such as supporting the invasion of Venezuela. On the other hand, advocating for assassination can understandably earn you a visit from the Secret Service.
- R2 has replaced the original R3 and is specifically tied to the "community standard" as a minor safeguard against mod abuse. As many have noted here, we need a general purpose "don't be a fag" rule.
- The spam rule has been expanded.
- R7 is to prevent low IQ posting. It has been slightly retooled to, again, add a minor safeguard against mods banning posts due to differences of political opinion.
- The original R7, the brigading rule, has been deleted. This community is too small to brigade even random Twitter posts, and if we get raided then the new R2 will cover it.
A notice at the top: we are now able to handle content violation reports regularly with six people on the mod team, so please make sure to use the report button where appropriate and one of us should get to it. It's a work in progress.
As far as the rules, this is our current list:
- Do not post Illegal Activity, or criminal manifestos.
- Do not engage in speech that promotes, advocates, glorifies, or endorses violence.
- Do not threaten, harass, defame, or bully users.
- Do not post involuntary Salacious Material.
- Do not post Porn
- NSFW content must be flaired NSFW.
- Do not post Facebook accounts or twitter accounts with less than 500 followers, and personal information.
- Do not intentionally deceive others by impersonating another.
- Do not solicit or engage in transactions that are federally regulated by the US govt.
- No vote manipulation. Do not break communities.win's features.
- Do not post spam.
- Do not post intentional falsehoods or hoaxes.
- No reposts
- Do not post more than 5 posts a day to this sub.
- Do not direct particularly egregious identity based slurs at users.
- Do not attack entire identity groups as inferior or conspiring.
What deletions, additions, and modifications do you have in mind?
Rule 15 and 16 need to go completely. This isn't Reddit, and the Dom abused them to hell and back. Take a blowtorch to them.
I'd really like to see rule 2 narrowed. I doubt it will be narrowed as much as I'd like but laughing at retards getting what's coming to them and saying they deserve it shouldn't result in a ban hammer. Same for calling for capital punishment. A lot of the problem was DOM's selective and bad faith interpretation of the rule, but even the plain meaning is still too broad. There's room for reasonable people to disagree where exactly the line should be drawn and I think having that discussion would be a good thing.
Rule 13 isn't really a problem but I don't think it's necessary for mods to be enforcing it. The community is very good at self policing when it comes to reposts.
3 and 12 I'm iffy on. With DOM finally fucking off I'm less concerned about them being interpreted in bad faith but it's probably best to close that door entirely. I can see 3 being useful in egregious cases especially if 15 is axed but 12 probably doesn't have any redeeming value that would outweigh the (admittedly reduced) risk of abuse.
Rule 14 is another iffy one for me. I'm not thrilled about it but it is useful an an anti-sperg measure. But as I've discussed with u/Kienan so is rule 16, and DOM abused that one way too much for keeping it to be feasible. We really need to attack the problem of spergs and bad faith posters directly instead of trying to fit a good moderation peg into a Reddit shaped hole.
Everything else falls under legal/TOS/site usability. Rule 1 could probably stand to be narrowed a little bit but it's not a hill I would die on.