Hey there! This is obviously a community in the vein of the reddit Hobby Drama subreddit, but I wanted to check in to see where we want to draw a few rules as a community. So to that end:
REPOSTING FROM REDDIT
I did see a few people were interested in having a bot auto repost from the reddit sub and most of our posts are reposts. My question here is should we have an anything from another site (reddit or otherwise) is fair game to repost with proper credit (let’s try to keep those links back to original write-ups, I feel this is only fair to the authors) rule or should permission be obtained from the author first for reposts (basically like r/bestofredditorupdates on reddit)?
DRAMA RESOLUTION WAITING PERIOD
The reddit sub has a 14 day waiting period for drama to conclude before a post can go up. As we’re obviously a smaller community I don’t see the need to be as stringent, but waiving the waiting period could lead to a lot of biased hot take posts. Would the community like to see the waiting period waived, lowered, remain?
ETA: this post is open for discussion until 7/24 so please do add your opinion even if you feel “late” to the discussion! It’s my goal to have the community rules updated by Friday 7/28 to fit our community a little better and knowing how our community feels as migration from reddit continues to take place will be a big assist.
My only issue with this is some of the people might not be there. They might have forgotten their accounts, left reddit or might be literally dead. I have definitely made some posts with some alts that I no longer remember the password to.
If we are going to require permission (which I am not for, for the record. I have a different philosophical view) then I would prefer it be an opt out type of thing. Meaning message the account, say that you are planning on reposting their post to Lemmy in the next week unless they respond and say they would rather not. That’s a win, win, win. Not only will you get a better repost rate (because let’s face it even if people don’t care, some people won’t bother answering their messages), you still give them the opportunity to say no and on top of that you get to introduce them to Lemmy!
I don’t know if we would be reposting really old posts or not so I’m not sure if that would be an issue. I think the opt out system is a good idea. At least it gives the creator a chance to decline the repost. Especially if we give them a decently long enough timeline to respond.
I wonder how this would all be enforced. Would you need to screenshot your PM to the OP?
I believe r/bestofredditorupdates usually just asks in the comments of the post so it’s public to everyone. Personally I don’t mind running on an honor system (since a fair share of the more popular HD posts are archived or authored by abandoned accounts) and if a write-up is reposted against the wishes of an author having a policy they can reach out to have the post here taken down.
For an example of a contacting the author issue though, the WoW write-up author was suspended by reddit and faik that was never revoked and the author never made another account. So there’s no way (that I’m aware of) to contact them and that’s a decently popular write-up that got voted an award by the subreddit community.
