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[Mod Post] Hobby Drama Rules Discussion

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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.

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I’m going to give it a week to see what everyone says, but right now I’m leaning towards (based on replies) strongly encouraging (but not requiring) posters sending an opt out message with a three day waiting period for a reply and then having a takedown policy for anyone who’s been reposted here who doesn’t want to be. More work for me, but I feel this might be a good middle ground. I mirrored my account on reddit so no one will have to make a Lemmy account to ask for a take down.

I did also reach out to the reddit mods a week ago asking for some guidance on how they’d like to link up, but I haven’t heard anything back which is why I decided to leave it to the community here.

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A community for the drama, big and small, in hobby groups.

RULES

  1. BE KIND. No bigotry, flaming, trolling, etc. Do not brigade (remember we are outside observers)!
  2. NO DOXXING. Do not post addresses, real names, etc of individuals. Exceptions are made for public figures (eg celebrities) and companies, but keep it relevant.
  3. 14 DAY RULE. When making a post drama should be concluded for at least 14 days to make sure it’s fully concluded and give a complete scope to posts. The exception to this is the weekly Hobby Round Up megathread which this rule does not apply to.
  4. INCLUDE CONSEQUENCES. When posting include what the drama means for the community. “The state of the game is worse off and players are leaving” is better than “and everyone was mad the end”.
  5. KEEP OUT BIAS. If you are one of the main participants in the drama don’t post, this isn’t a community for validation seeking. If you’re a peripheral (eg you’re in the hobby and have an opinion, but aren’t the one the drama is about, leading a petition drive, etc) posting is fine. Strive to be objective in your write-up.
  6. NSFW. If a hobby or drama is NSFW mark the post as such.
  7. REPOSTS. Reposts should be clearly marked with [REPOST] in the title and a link to the original post at the top or bottom of the post. Posts that don’t follow this rule will be warned and then removed if the requested changes aren’t made.
  8. TITLE GUIDELINES. Titles should include the following tags as appropriate:
  • [REPOST] for reposts
  • [HISTORY] for drama that does not include hobbyists (eg industry drama such as the financial fallout of a game company’s decisions)
  • [GENERAL HOBBY] music, apparel, video games, TV shows, knitting, social media group, etc
  • [SPECIFIC HOBBY] is an optional tag if you’d like to be more specific (eg Taylor Swift, Game of Thrones, Gucci, World of Warcraft, etc)

An example title would be: [Video Games][Old School Runescape] The hat scandal OR [Repost][History][Music] Fyre Festival controversies

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