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.
To add to the tankie discussion
I’d like to support the explanation of tankie, but keep the wording. It’s been around for a reason - being that it’s far easier to self-regulate and keeping “authoritarian socialists” out.
The reason we should keep tankie is for education. States using tanks against it’s citizens are not cool. I myself learned a lot about authoritarianism after encountering the word initially.
Tankie is misused, but easily explained as to what it actually is, and I have shown people to wikipedia, not much harder than that.
196 has a long history of having no tankie rule, from reddit to lemmy. And I honestly think it’s important to keep it.