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Speak up now: What should our community guidelines be? (kbin.social)
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Hello everyone! If you have not yet seen it, @ernest has handed over moderation to @Drusas @Entropywins @ Frog-Brawler (the tag system consistently messes up the link to FB's username lol) and myself here in !politics.

First order of business is for you all to weigh in on the community guidelines that you would like to see here. As the mod team, we will weigh all suggestions and then add them to the side bar as magazine/community rules. I'm going to give about 48 hours for users to see this thread and add a comment or discuss.

Please know that the goal is not to create an echo chamber here in !politics, but we want to ensure that there is not an encroachment of rage bait and toxicity. It brings down the quality of the magazine and it discourages community engagement.

For the time being, the mod tools are pretty sparse, so I want to manage expectations about the scope of moderation we're able to do right now. For now, our touch will be light. Expect increased functionality as time progresses, though. We have 3 weeks of reports on file, so please know we see them. Give us some time to establish how to handle those before you start to see any movement.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some forms of humor including unmarked sarcasm (may be akin to light trolling) should be allowed.

Side note: It looks like the italics markup on kbin is actually underlining for other platforms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't want this place to be a joyless hellscape of too much reality LOLOL

Humor, sarcasm, wit, satire should all be expected in the comment sections. Humor that punches down or is trolling in the guise of humor I guess will just be downvoted to hell. oh well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing that bit about italics. I hadn't realized and have been using italics myself. Do you know if bolding is working properly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On my screen, bold works correctly. Italics can be produce from either *word* or _word_. But I feel like the latter should be underlined instead.