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[Meta] Requesting community feedback on potential rule changes (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Changes highlighted in italics:

Instance rules apply.
[New] Be reasonable, constructive, and conductive to discussion.
[Updated] Stay on-topic, specially for more divisive subjects. Avoid unnecessarily mentioning topics and individuals prone to derail the discussion.
[Updated] Post sources whenever reasonable to do so. And when sharing links to paywalled content, provide either a short summary of the content or a freely accessible archive link.
Avoid crack theories and pseudoscientific claims.
Have fun!

What I'm looking for is constructive criticism for those rules. In special for the updated rule #3.

Thank you!

EDIT: feedback seems overwhelmingly positive, so I'm implementing the changes now. Feel free to use this thread for any sort of metadiscussion you want. Thank you all for the feedback!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I'm just a lurker, but does rule #3 come from that user that started a nuclear war because someone told them their link was behind a paywall? That thread was embarrassing, so I guess it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Nuclear war?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Kinda.

To be frank I was already considering this sort of rule ages ago, regardless of that discussion. (Nobody was "starting a nuclear war" though.) So the role of that discussion was

to make me consider this a more pressing matter
how to handle this in a way that satisfies both sides.

I'm open to better ways to handle this, in case anyone wants to chime in.