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This is the backup community for SquaredCircle on Lemmy.zip! Come discuss pro wrestling! Any company or era is welcome. (Our main community on Lemmy.zip) Please direct conversations towards our main community as it is more active and this spot is intended for 'emergency' purposes.

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Hi everyone, absentee mod here! Looking to not be so absentee going forward.

When this magazine was kicked off, it was essentially cloned from the SquaredCircle subreddit. However, a lot of rules there were put in place because of the immense volume of traffic -- the sub needed curation to weed out a bunch of meh posts and those who were karma-seeking. But we don't need to mirror that, and in fact, it may be better to open the doors a bit so that more people feel comfortable posting new threads.

We wouldn't be looking to change the rules related to civility, trolling, hate speech, or spoilers. But feel free to leave your feedback on your thoughts on these other rules:

  • Derailing a thread: I'm not sure that rule is needed -- if the conversation becomes uncivil, that's its own rule broken.

  • Low effort: we're not enforcing this much now as it stands with low volume, but give your thoughts on post quality concerns. Personally I wouldn't want to keep single responses that are easily found on a Google search, but beyond that, where to draw the line?

  • Memes: some people love that r/SC didn't allow them and kept them contained to another subreddit. Do you have thoughts on memes?

  • Not related to wrestling: we could change this definition. Politics are allowed on r/SC. Personal photos with wrestlers are not. Where would you like to see the line drawn?

  • Clickbait/vague titles: do you want to see those continue to be removed? This somewhat falls under the quality discussion.

  • Sexualized content: I don't see this changing (as in, none) but hey, let your thoughts known

  • Sources: I think we should keep the same sources banned as on r/SC because they have harassed and doxxed users in the past -- they're banned for everyone's benefit. The other rule was "link to the primary source" instead of an article/tweet quoting another article, with the exception being original transcripts of podcasts. Any thoughts on this?

  • Any rules we don't have but should?

Feel free to voice any other opinions (I know there have been conversations about mods in general, I'm working on that) but moderating starts with rules, so let's hear your thoughts!

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[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'll echo the prevailing sentiments, the rules are fine as is and have worked for us in the past regardless of where we were, so they should due us well here, not that we'll have many problems since as you said for now, low volume. Hopefully a yes on the yarrr topic, and I'll also add in a vote in the low-effort-day. I have zero issues with memes, but allowing em full time will just turn this place into 196 but with shittier memes lol.