Hello everyone! First of all, I’d like to say thank you to every one of you for your support! Our community is about to be the first user-made one to reach 1K users/week on this instance. And our friends over at Ask Lemmy and Mildly Infuriating are following very closely, which is just as amazing!
We’re all working together to establish healthy communities and a friendly atmosphere here. And over at !NoStupidQuestions, we believe that all our members should have a say in what we do & how we do it.
Do you see anything wrong with our rules? Would you like anything removed and/or added? Do you think Rule 6 is useful and good for the community? Do you want a discord server or a matrix chat room?
Please feel free to ask any questions you might have & share your suggestions and ideas!
With Love,
!NoStupidQuestions Mod Team
I’m not on lemmy.world, but I’d just like to say that im always sad when I see communities using Discord for communication. It’s the exact opposite of lemmy. And if one considers the current Reddit measures as harsh, they are pretty soft compared to Discords stance on such matters. Information that goes in there is basically lost. So go the entire way with Matrix.
We did! You can join our matrix chat room by following directions at our sidebar :)
Do you want a discord server or a matrix chat room?
Matrix.
We actually do have an experimental one on matrix! On fluffychat to be more specific. Would you like to join before it’s established fully? Still trying to work things out
Sure. I added my Matrix handle to the profile which you can see by clicking
Send secure message.Will do! You can also put in the link #nostupidquestions:matrix.org on the search bar.
Stupid question, couldn’t resist. On Jerboa, I am not seeing the link to the rules. Gonna look around a bit more.
On the community page, click on the up right 3 dots, then community info.
Hello there! On our community page, open the menu on top right. You can view our rules by selecting “Community Info” :)
Excited to be here! The rules look good. I suspect rule 5 is the most important and also the one that will get tested the most.
Don’t try to negotiate with bad actors. Just fucking kick them.
Thank you. Welcome aboard! :)
Rule 6 seems useful and almost needed for any community, barring any abuse of the tag obviously.
Yes, give me buttons for /subscribed and whatever the other one is. Also, you guys massively under-estimate the dopamine rush of that notification counter going up.
no complaints thus far, interesting take on the what is/ask forum. I like to look at & occasionally answer
I don’t think removing hateful people will be as big of an issue as it was on reddit though, since the mod log is public by default, and it’s more likely they’ll just be all driven back into a defederated hiding place somewhere.
We agree with you margot robbie. Lemmy.world in general has policies that prevent toxicity sitewide.
It’s a very delicate balance to mod, you want people to feel free to express their different opinions without getting their comments instantly removed, but you also want to keep the assholes who only comes to upset people out (a small minority, for sure, but they should not feel welcome to spew their venom everywhere).
I’d say rules are ultimately just guidelines, but you should always be flexible, but fair with the rules, and then people will stay here.
The rules seem good to me, including Nr 6. I also like it that you are looking out for your community and want to provide a great atmosphere here.
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All the rules seem reasonable to me, I think #6 is good to have & fine the way it’s written. Just joined Lemmy a few days ago, so still acclimatizing.
Congratz!! Amazing to see this growth.
Rules look fine to me, I also appreciate a lot that you’re asking the community <3
Thank you! We’ve all seen what toxic moderators meant back in Reddit. Whatever they did to put themselves first and hurt their users, we should be doing the exact opposite here. :)
Personally I would address the wording around rule 5. As it stands, it basically just sounds like the lead mod is going “I reserve the right to control the political climate of this community.”
I think if you simply elaborated a little more in the description of the rule, and possibly provided examples, it would help allay these fears.
Let’s get off on a good, professional footing that inspires seriousness and trust in our userbase, though, instead of a funnier one that encourages goofing off and trolling.
edit: added a couple words
I think rule 7 needs to be updated a little bit; that is how Reddit started banning people for hating on Nazis
The wording can be modified a bit. Saying “any group or any of our members in ANY way” gives it a rather broad meaning, which I can see could be maliciously interpreted if somebody wanted to. We could just define the banned behavior in clearer words instead. Thanks for the suggestion.
You are welcome, that is exactly how I got banned from Reddit lol
Rule 7 has been updated.
While I aggree: This is not a trivial problem.
I don’t quite understand what you mean, I wasn’t saying it was trivial.
No, I mean it will be hard to clearly define what is allowed and what not. Yes, we don’t want Nazis. But the defintion of what a Nazi is, is not a precise thing.
It will take some workshopping, but I think even putting in a “except hate groups” or something like that would work. It would have to be worded better than just that, but it would also stop undesirable subreddits from moving here which I think most people can agree is a good thing. And by undesirable I mean places like redpill, Chodi, or NoNewNormal(even thought they are all banned theses are good examples of the type of behaviour that should not be protected.)
I would suggest an FAQ for newbies, since so many are flooding in (like me). Too big a burden for a few sysadmins or mods, so I would suggest you crowd-source it. If Lemmy has wiki-like capabilities, you could use those. Or as a last resort, you could use the actual en.wikipedia.org. This is my first day here, and I’ve read tons but I feel as though I’m lost and without a map.
The rule list could use some formatting so they are scannable. Right now every rule is one long text paragraph. If the central words or short summary head were bold it’d be much better UI and UX wise.
It may be worth it to consider or discuss whether certain types of questions that have more fitting alternative communities should be posted there and not here. (General open questions may be better fit on asklemmy. Questions that are not “stupid” either through lack of knowledge or lack of context knowledge or risk of being looked down upon may not belong here.) Although moderating those could become difficult because they may not always be clearly one or the other.
Asking for opinions is not a possibly considered stupid question unless it’s something people generally don’t have to ask about or shouldn’t ask about.
