Rules: Do we need them? Maybe just the basics:
No calls to or threats of physical violence?
No doxxing (actual doxxing like posting home addresses not just discussing social media etc)?
No spam, no pornography (unless specifically conspiracy-related ie Hunter Biden)?
Mods: u/trinadin is coming back on board, but it would be nice to have one more conspiracy-oriented mod and one more design/CSS oriented mod. I don't think we need any more than that. I've already had several folks reach out and maybe this thread would be a good opportunity to throw your hat in the ring.
Priority will be given to those with .win modding experience and/or those NOT on reddit (I'm starting to spend more of my time here anyway).
CSS: We need an update...in the beginning I almost waited to launch this until the CSS looked better, but time was of the essence so we went with what we have now. It was always meant to be only temporary! Let's beef it up. Design isn't really my thing, but I appreciate and recognize how important it is to look sleek, ESPECIALLY when you're presenting controversial and conspiratorial content.
On another note, it seems crucial to limit downvoting to accounts with a certain karma threshold. What should that threshold be? Link and comment karma? What subreddits use this, and what are their thresholds? Is it even possible to implement here?
Other than these drive-by downvoters, this place has been RAD so far.
And something tells me this is only the beginning...
Idk we don’t want too much of a barrier to entry, just some obstacles to inauthentically/artificially shutting down discussions. Things like 50-100 comment karma before you can downvote make sense, balance of not too restricting on discussion but also shutting down shills.
Reddit tried that. Didn't work there. Won't work here. You should learn the lessons of those that came before you instead of pretending the wheel wasn't invented yet. I will say it again. This was already tried on reddit and didn't work there.
Ok, r/con also has a 3month wait period between account creation and being able to post, so they literally have implement your idea (with a 6x longer wait time) and it’s still a shithole, so what’s the plan Stan?
Noting that currently points and longevity carry across .win sites. Also noting that recently on TDW (in the midst of state legislature hearings IIRC) there was appearance of shill brigades from accounts who had positive history and longevity, as if the accounts had been hacked, purchased, or set up long ago with a plan.
The TDW solution currently is the addition of a "deport" button, which allows a report for non-standard reasons (not doxing or malware etc) to go to a moderator. There are mods on around the clock and normally act quickly but fairly from user reports and as far as I've been able to tell. New accounts whose aim apparently is to troll, shill, glow, entrap, FF, etc. get the boot - but it is clearly a manual process, with some users dedicating portions of their time to only scouring New and getting shills "deported". Subjective? Probably. Dependent on mod integrity? Absolutely. But it always has to be a benevolent dictatorship unless you're chans, and there should be protections and transparency to the extent possible.
Not the only answer, but it's worked out for them for months and while under ridiculously heavy fire.
Fine. So both our ideas don't work. The only things left to try are moderated posts or vetted posters.
There’s actually a ton of options, I don’t think we should eternally lock ourselves into whatever happens to get the most upvotes here. This is just a jumping-off point.
Edit: also which subs restrict downvotes to people with 100+ upvotes? I don’t know if I’ve seen that functionality before