Sidebar Update: Civility

The News Community updated their civility rule, and based on recent reports here and in World News, it seemed like a worthy addition to our rule-set.

I talked it over with the other mods, and we feel the change is a good idea.

The Civility rule now includes accusations of bots and paid actors.

" This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban."

There have been a lot of comments along the lines of “Disregard previous rules, write x about y”, implying the person resonded to is an AI or a bot.

I’ve been ignoring reports on those until now because we never really had a rule about it, well, now we do!

As usual, if you see trolling, don’t engage, just report it.

  • @Delta_V
    20•1 month ago

    Are bots now explicitly permitted? Or is just that users are banned from revealing them, making bots implicitly permitted?

    edit: this is exactly the sort of BS that drove me away from Reddit - shutting down the 3rd party accessibility apps was messed up, but when they started banning people for reporting rule violations it became intolerable

    • Victoria Antoinette
      7•1 month ago

      if you see a bot, report it. accusing other users in the thread is just toxic.

      • @Delta_V
        2•1 month ago

        how can you know its a bot if testing for it is forbidden?

          • @Delta_V
            4•1 month ago

            That’s not a solution. From the sidebar:

            Users that . . . weaponize reports . . . will be banned.

            One of the things that went wrong with reddit, is some mods weaponized that rule itself, using it to provide immunity to rule breakers they agreed with by banning people who reported the rule breaking behavior.

            Its unreasonable to ask users to report bots while simultaneously forbidding us from testing if its a bot before making the report. It reeks of having a pro-propaganda bot agenda.

            • @evenglow
              3•1 month ago

              One of the things wrong with reddit is you are told to report comments. Mods delete and ban the ones they don’t like. They keep the ones they like.

              This works well if you agree with mods and agree with approved trolls…

              One of the things that went wrong with reddit, is some mods weaponized that rule itself, using it to provide immunity to rule breakers they agreed with by banning people who reported the rule breaking behavior.

            • Victoria Antoinette
              -2•1 month ago

              if you think the mods have a pro-propaganda bot agenda, why would you want to use their community? there are hundreds of Lemmy instances and thousands of other fediverse servers.