Hiiii everybody! We need rules to keep the place from going off the rails and your mod team would like you to give them a review and let us know what you think. We’re going to implement them now as a temporary ruleset so I’ll slap them into the sidebar shortly, then make amendments based on commentary. Here’s what we’ve got:
Community Rules
- Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).
- Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.
- Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.
- Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very “off topic”.
- Avoid AI generated content.
- Avoid corpoposting.
- Avoid misinformation.
- Avoid incomprehensible posts.
- No prejudice such as transphobia, racism, ableism, etc.
- No threats or personal attacks.
- No spam.
- No tankie, nazi, or any other authoritarian behavior.
- No genocide denial.
I prefer that we leave the “no tankie” rule intact, its sadly very important on lemmy with all these lemmygrad, hexbear etc. servers around. Mods know what tankies are, and we dont have to cater to people who dont know the definition of words we use.
“Tankie” is an important destinction because it seperates leftists from the edgy geopolitics enjoyers, and we would loose that destinction if we drop that word. Lastly, “tankie” is mostly willingly misunderstood by tankies, who want to water it down so they can infilitrate other leftist communities. Thats what happened back on reddit at least.
I think moderators of LBZ’s own Liberty Hub have been called tankies by people at .world or sh.itjust.works
So it already is a muddled definition so who is on either side of the distinction is not consistent and can be used to alienate people from this community who would like to participate. If a stalin meme gets posted remove that or whatever but i dont think the community needs to be worried about malicious infiltrators