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...
I don’t think we should remove “low quality”/“low effort” posts but I think we should, as a community, endeavor to ignore them.
When a poster puts obvious thought and effort into a message, even if we disagree we should comment that disagreement before trying to bury it with votes.
Instead of “rules” we should have guidelines or whatever you want to call “strong community suggestions”, like if youre going to link to something, give as much context as you can and try to lay out what you think it adds to the discussion. There’s so many posts where you can’t tell what the OP is trying to say, and it allows shills and forum sliders to hide behind a layer of obfuscation.
Basically I’m saying we shouldn’t remove low effort posts but reward high effort ones. If that attitude gets instilled in the community, moderation starts to handle itself.
Also what’s the deal with this sites backend? Do you (the mods) have access to it? Could you tweak the ranking algorithm? Could you make a “sort by controversial” and “sort by recent comment” version of the front page?
I agree that educating is better than ruling but we need some sort of fallback option for people that cannot be educated.
I propose we require accounts to have at least 15 days of registering before they can post.
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?