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submitted 1 day ago by SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Hiiii everybody! We need rules to keep the place from going off the rails and your mod team would like you to give them a review and let us know what you think. We're going to implement them now as a temporary ruleset so I'll slap them into the sidebar shortly, then make amendments based on commentary. Here's what we've got:

Community Rules

Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).
Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.
Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.
Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very "off topic".
Avoid AI generated content.
Avoid corpoposting.
Avoid misinformation.
Avoid incomprehensible posts.
No prejudice such as transphobia, racism, ableism, etc.
No threats or personal attacks.
No spam.
No tankie, nazi, or any other authoritarian behavior.
No genocide denial.

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[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would like to voice my support for the "no authoritarian" rule. Just because liberals use the term "tankie" to wrongly describe non-auth leftists, doesnt mean the word isn't clearly defined or that it shouldnt be used.

If you're auth-"left" or find yourself doing apologia for the few genocides and instances of human rights voilations that the west opposes, you're a tankie. It's safe to say that genocide apologia and human rights violations of any kind should have no place on 196.

[–] WrittenInRed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I like the anti-authoritarianism and no genocide denial rules, it's just the term tankie being used specifically that feels like the biggest issue imo. It's misused so often that it kinda ends up excluding a decent number of people. Someone doesn't need to self-identify as a tankie to feel excluded, just getting called one enough by others for expressing anything left-wing can do it. Its not that I think any of the mods here would use it to wrongly remove stuff like a .world community might, but for people who don't know as much about Lemmy/196 it wouldn't be surprising for people to assume that because they get called a tankie on world that they wouldn't be welcome here.

And definitely agreed human rights violations and genocides definitely shouldn't be defended regardless of what country did them, but I think since we already have the no genocide denial rule those should be covered anyway.