Feedback Thread - Forum Community Guidelines

antillese

Hi forum community.

If you didn’t see it, the Forum Community Guidelines can be found here.

The team has been working hard on these guidelines and feel like they are ready for rollout. Please let us know what you think.

Gaagaagiins

This is a very strong set of guidelines.

I have only a minor nitpick, at least at the moment:

4 Your off-site behavior may impact your ability to participate in this community.
4.a
We expect that your off-site behavior as it overlaps our forum community to be inline with guidelines here. An example is coordinating harassment of our members off-site. It is unwelcome and will not be tolerated.

I think the “as it overlaps our forum community” could stand to be in the heading text. Without that clarification it kind of sounds like you’re gonna try and narc on our Facebook posts even though that’s totally unrealistic.

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Overall feedback is, though, that they are simple, yet cover a ton of ground. It speaks a lot of our unspoken agreements which I think is really valuable. I especially like 2. as an entire section!

antillese

Been letting it sit for a while so I would be able to make changes as a batch.

Gaagaagiins I think the “as it overlaps our forum community” could stand to be in the heading text. Without that clarification it kind of sounds like you’re gonna try and narc on our Facebook posts even though that’s totally unrealistic.

Agreed and updated.

Mnemogenic

These seem like very clear and reasonable guidelines. I agree that section 2 is a highlight, especially when it comes to welcoming new people to the forum. I’ve been trained by early 2000s forums and contemporary social media to always have my guard up. It’s cool to have a section that says ’hey it’s alright you can relax we don’t do that here’.

tokucowboy

Thanks for working on this, mods, it’s really appreciated. Even if the wording gets brushed up, I’m a fan of #2 and #4 – haven’t seen a lot of community rules like those in particular, they’re thoughtful and helpful

marurun

I actually fucking love these guidelines. A winner is you! Actually, a winner is US, because we get to participate in a healthy forum community.

HeavenlyHalberd

I just want to pop in here to say that given the recent Reddit drama involving them basically making it financially impossible for third party text apps for the site to continue existing, I just really, really appreciate this site and community for being a positive, friendly inclusive, well designed, and well moderated forum and feels like the last bastion for cool internet communities alongside specific Discord servers as a lot of the large social media sites continue to get worse. I’m super grateful this forum exists.