The community has grown steadily and now has more than 1000 subscribers. My approach so far was very laid back and I did not remove posts or ban many people, unless some very clear cases of spam and trolling.
In recent times, more user reports have reached me, which I did not act upon. This is also due to a lack of rules.
My original intention was to have a space for discussion, also with non-vegans. I see that the community is mostly passive with posts being links to external sites with few comments, also to sites of the posters. I personally don't mind and the upvotes tend to be >80%, which is a sign that a large majority likes this kind of posts.
This is why I want to ask you:
- Would you like to see more regulation on this community?
- What rules should be applied?
- What would you specifically not like to see?
I'm also open to have more moderators than just me for this community and general ideas for improving this community.
Thank you for your input! 🌱
This may not be 100% relevant to this thread, but I don't know where else it would belong.
I went on Hexbear recently in order to see what all of the fuss was about. (slrpnk.net defederates only a few instances, but hexbear.net is one of them.) I cursorily perused the Local feed and some of the more popular communities and was mildly surprised by the proportion of comments expressing solidarity, caring, encouragement, and so on. After that, I checked out the Code of Conduct to see whether such behaviour was exceptional or part of the Hexbear culture. Of course I didn't agree with everything that I read, but multiple times, I found myself saying "this is pretty reasonable" or "we should do that here." In particular:
This last could be easily adapted to this instance: "Animal Liberation is essential to any anti-capitalist movement, including platforms like SLRPNK. Volunteers, comments, and posts, should not be anti-vegan, although users and volunteers are not required to be vegan."
Of course I was most interested in the vegan community, and it seemed pretty cool. The vegan community's rules are the following:
If we wanted this to be a vegans-only community, then adapting these rules (basically by adjusting the wording rather than the meaning) would be a fairly solid starting point. Even if we wanted this place to be more open to the pre-vegans of the Fediverse, these rules would probably still be appropriate in some form.
Just sharing this in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty (not even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose).