Hello! Previously on this community we held a poll in response to a user’s question: should we allow or prohibit reposts from Reddit?

While we don’t have the number of active users to make a poll with a lot of total votes, the choice was clear: with a majority of the votes, we should temporarily allow Reddit reposts on this Lemmy community.

How Reddit reposts will work:

It’s important to note that the guiding principle for Relationship Advice on Lemmy will be - always - to help others have a reference point for their own relationships, to recognize what is okay or not okay within their own life and experiences, to seek help when dealing with abusive behavior, and to have the support of a non judgemental community when needed.

With that in mind, here are the rules effective immediately for reposting content found on Reddit:

  • The title must contain the tag: [Reddit]

  • Reddit reposts must contain a link directly to the original post or a cached/mirrored version of the page.

  • Reddit reposts must not include additional titles or paragraphs that are supposed to make fun of or otherwise attack the original poster.

  • A single user must not post more than two reposts in the span of 48 hours - that means no automatic reposting bots, post dumps, or other types of spammy behavior.

  • While reposts made at the moment will not be removed in the future, if our community becomes self sustaining the ability for making Reddit reposts might be revoked.

Important information that might help reposters:

  • Lemmy is got a 10000 character limit. This is often smaller than some popular Relationship Advice posts on Reddit, for that reason, pasting the contents into an external text platform such as Pastebin is allowed - but all the same rules apply.

  • Relationship Advice on Lemmy doesn’t restrict updates, additional edits, extra paragraphs added in the future and so on. This means you are allowed to append the repost with more information provided by the original poster on Reddit, such as a session for popular comments.

Finally, I hope all users can understand that while there are potential downsides to this decision (like creating the idea that Lemmy depends on Reddit, and not directly helping OP) the popular vote was sufficient and, currently, we do not have enough original content to start to build the trust necessary for a community such as ours to receive new users truly seeking for advice. This decision will be discussed again in the future, with a new poll, once our numbers grow a bit.