The News Community updated their civility rule, and based on recent reports here and in Politics, 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.

  • @jordanlundOPMEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    That’s a good question, and I had that discussion with an admin regarding a user who was posting all over the place in other communities.

    I noted it was the same self promo spam over and over, but always as posts, never any comments.

    I reacted that it felt bot-ish, the admin disagreed and thought it was a human who could be reasoned with. 🤷‍♂️

    Not my communities so not my dance, we’ll see how it shakes out. I really doubt it’s a human.