what about #12? How do you even enforce a rule that's based on the poster's intent?

A potential middle ground I thought up is, require the declaration of jokes/shitposts as such.

What is involuntary salacious material?

Who knows, and who cares? Whatever it is, seems like it's covered by multiple other redundancies. And was anyone EVER dinged for a R4 violation? Probably once or twice, because I remember people saying exactly that: What the fuck is that?!

So, yeah, get rid of that nonsense.

Agreed on all, except potentially 12. Maybe it could be reworded, and it shouldn't include memes, but some people do love to post actual bullshit and try to lie to people for ideological purposes or something.

I think there should be a rule to enforce against bad actors who want to do nothing but post bullshit.

Could potentially be combined with u/Arsith 's suggestion, about providing sources. Maybe you should just have to mark shitposts or "falsehoods" as such, if you're posting stuff that isn't real.

Part of me wants to say 'fuck em' but, like you said, it would actually be for the user's sake, not for complying with retarded totalitarian regimes. So the 'manifesto' ban could be added back in, if needed. (EDIT: Or require tagging of manifestos.)

I will say, keeping some similar rules separate is still good practice since, even if they sound alike, they cover different things. So it can actually be more clear to be seemingly redundant.

Porn is pornographic content, which is different than simply "NSFW" stuff, for example. I don't think those should be rolled into one, since they're covering different things.

And I just did away with R15 entirely. Like you said, it's covered by overly harassing users.

And I think R7 (my R5), is more to protect us, than others. But I can see doing away with it as well. Like you said, low risk, so maybe we should just be allowed to talk about literal whos on Twitter. It was a holdover from Reddit. We could always readjust if it becomes an issue down the road.

My R7 and R9 could be combined as well.

I have ideas to trim it down even further if needed, but for now let's go with, something like:

R1: Do not advocate for violence, or post other illegal activity.
R2: Do not threaten, harass, or impersonate fellow users.
R3: Do not post porn.
R4: NSFW content must be flaired NSFW.
R5: No vote manipulation. Do not break communities.win's features.
R6: No reposts or spam threads.
R7: Do not post obviously intentional falsehoods or hoaxes.
R8: Do not post more than 5 posts a day to this sub.

Which is ironic, since Imp hates Christians, and Smith is one of the most outspoken and, I'd argue, genuine Christians here.

Just spitballing here:

Is "manifesto" (R1) a sitewide or actually illegal violation? If not, I think they should be fair game. I hate censorship, and those are always relevant for discussion.

We could roll R1 and R2 together to "Do not advocate for violence, or post other illegal activity." R9 is redundant with R1 too.

We could roll R3 and R8 together, and do away with R15 entirely, changing to to "Do not threaten, harass, or impersonate fellow users."

R7, small accounts, could potentially be lowered slightly, if people wanted. 250? 300? Could just leave at 500 too.

R10 and R11 could be combined, potentially, but I'll leave them distinct for now.

R12 is tricky, since it's open to interpretation, but could be left for now, maybe with the edition of "obvious," although that's still vague.

So, again, spitballing, the simplified list would look like the following:

R1: Do not advocate for violence, or post other illegal activity.
R2: Do not threaten, harass, or impersonate fellow users.
R3: Do not post porn.
R4: NSFW content must be flaired NSFW.
R5: Do not post Facebook accounts or twitter accounts with less than [XXX] followers, and personal information.
R6: No vote manipulation. Do not break communities.win's features.
R7: Do not post spam.
R8: Do not post obviously intentional falsehoods or hoaxes.
R9: No reposts
R10: Do not post more than 5 posts a day to this sub.

And I think that's it. Cut it significantly, and could be further tuned. Did I miss anything?

Unironically.

Check the pinned thread. Also, it's there on the sidebar.

We got six new mods, including me. All oldtimers. Smith is a standout to a lot of people, reasonably so. Don't want to put pressure on him, but he really is just one of our nicest members, and is recognized as such by many. Not sure how active he'll be, but it's nice to have him on the team.

Like this morning.

As to Dom, sadly, he had some undisclosed family issues, which is why he was even less active than usual, and has now appointed new mods.

It's a little unclear the full org tree, but he seems to be stepping back in effect.

I'm biased, but I think the new mod team is looking solid, and everyone seems energetic but reserved.

No.

That's not him, though. He used to be a regular member here, until he went even more insane, and he's already had tons of alts banned too.

If it was just about some badge, he'd already earned it many times over.

What was his alleged crime?

I don't know the deep lore, just that he's been varying levels of insane for many years.

I addressed that in another comment. I was just playing Devil's advocate.

Rule 16 is terrible, and I've been against it since the beginning.

When he fled the country because of me it absolutely broke him so his mask slipped even further.

What the heck is the lore on that?

And, yeah, I know he was always anti-White to varying degrees, but my point is his persona shifted into the most hatable version of himself, and I don't think that's accidental.

If you mean "bad faith," he admitted to wanting to be banned, intentionally breaking the rules, and wanting to be a disruptive presence here, when he first showed up a while back.

We have mods now. :D

For everyone else, his ostensible reason for shitting this place up was getting tagged here. He really seems to dislike it.

Quite the opposite. I've developed a theory that he has a humiliation fetish, or something, in addition to his other mental illnesses.

It's just wild that he went from hating women, to hating Whites, Christians, conservatives, family, and a bunch of other stuff we actually value here, while defending Israel and the alphabet folks.

He built an identity completely made to be hated.

Speaking just for myself, I'm certainly considering it, but these things have to be done carefully. It's bad management to come in and change things too drastically, but it's certainly on the list.

Also, u/BandageBandolier has been doing work, and manually approving a lot of stuff that was getting caught.

So, we're already improving there, but will have to settle into things a bit more - and decide the direction we want to go (community input included!) - on the topic.

As I've said, I don't want to change thigs much, until people have settled in at the very least, but we certainly have more options now that we have active mods.

Maybe I grew up between bans...

Nope, Imp massively changed. He went even more insane, and his focus shifted majorly as well.

I'm wondering if part of his mental illness is a humiliation kink, or something. I swear he gets off on the negative attention.

He started off mostly hating women, but then shifted to hating Christians, Whites, family, the right wing, "stormfags," and a bunch of even weirder shit.

While defending gays, troons, and Israel.

He basically set himself up against almost everyone here, in one way or another.

You'll get 'im next time!

Personally, I don't feel the need for that to be official. You're totally welcome to make those threads, and see if there's interest. If there's interest in the threads, and in making it more official, they could probably be stickied though, yeah.

Also can I please get posting privilege again? It was removed randomly and all my posts have gotten caught in the community filter for the past year.

I'll try to check the mod logs and see if there's any blocks for you, but go ahead and make any threads you want, and now that there are regular mods, we'll be approving stuff that gets caught but doesn't violate the rules. So post away.

I don't really keep track of what's coming out, outside of a few exceptions but...yeah, things are looking good this season.

Really enjoyed the first episode of Sentenced to be a Hero.

Kunon is probably going to be a bit slop, but is still entertaining so far.

I can't imagine they're considered the weak point.

Not weak, per se, I just get why they wouldn't be to everyone's taste. A lot of people are going to want more action, and that doesn't pick up for a little while. A bunch of people want to see Frieren blasting demons, and that takes a little bit to ramp up. Intro isn't bad, but some people just won't have the attention span for it, I think.

I did not like Fall 2025 Anime slate. I get what OP is saying but that's not why I felt the season was weak. Not many of the stories were compelling and kept me engaged.

Yup. I just ignore the ones with gay/furry shit so, while it's not a good sign, it doesn't diminish my enjoyment. But the anime I did watch had less percentage of high quality content. There was some good stuff, but a bunch that, like you, just didn't catch my interest at all, or couldn't hold it. Basically, as the kids say, there was way too much stuff that was "mid" at best.