Hey there! This is obviously a community in the vein of the reddit Hobby Drama subreddit, but I wanted to check in to see where we want to draw a few rules as a community. So to that end:
REPOSTING FROM REDDIT
I did see a few people were interested in having a bot auto repost from the reddit sub and most of our posts are reposts. My question here is should we have an anything from another site (reddit or otherwise) is fair game to repost with proper credit (let’s try to keep those links back to original write-ups, I feel this is only fair to the authors) rule or should permission be obtained from the author first for reposts (basically like r/bestofredditorupdates on reddit)?
DRAMA RESOLUTION WAITING PERIOD
The reddit sub has a 14 day waiting period for drama to conclude before a post can go up. As we’re obviously a smaller community I don’t see the need to be as stringent, but waiving the waiting period could lead to a lot of biased hot take posts. Would the community like to see the waiting period waived, lowered, remain?
ETA: this post is open for discussion until 7/24 so please do add your opinion even if you feel “late” to the discussion! It’s my goal to have the community rules updated by Friday 7/28 to fit our community a little better and knowing how our community feels as migration from reddit continues to take place will be a big assist.
Automatic reposts are terrible for everybody browsing New, I’d suggest not adding such a bot.
But for my communities, I do allow manual Reddit reposts and ask users to add [Reddit] in the title. The idea being that in the future, when third party apps allow filtering by keywords, people who do not want to see them can just add [Reddit] to the blocked words list.
What if the bot was programmed with conditions. Like it has to hit some sort of upvote criteria? (Not even sure that’s possible without API, but just a thought)
That’s a good point about the filtering and I think I’ll see about implementing that. I don’t expect people to totally abandon the subreddit for this community so it’ll be nice for people who use both to filter out reposts when filtering presumably eventually becomes available. Thanks for the suggestion!
Far as the bot goes I’m not interested in one personally, but I did see a post asking for it when I joined the community here. But I agree I don’t think it would help the community grow, but just make us a mirror for the subreddit.