[Mod Post] Hobby Drama Rules Discussion
[Mod Post] Hobby Drama Rules Discussion
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.
Just my optimism, but I’m ok with reposts, at least until the original content here picks up.
And a waiting period seems like a good idea. Maybe 7 days is enough? 14 days works too.
I do appreciate the reposter’s intentions, but if I was a newcomer and not someone who understands they’re doing it because there’s no content here, just one person posting all the time would turn me off immediately.
Fair opinions!
Since no one seems to have an issue with 14 days I'm thinking we might as well just stick with that. If it really chafes the community we can always change it later too. Thanks for the input!
Regarding reposts, in my opinion if your going copy an entire post and link back to the reddit post and user, no permission should be required. It's really not much different than Google or any other website that might aggregate their content. If your going to summarize or change their post in anyway, then permission should definitely be required.
Waiting period definitely needs to remain, 14 days is a blink of an eye and the entire story could be reframed in that time.
Edit: I also would like to see any repost be forced to be submitted with something like Repost or [RP] in the title. I think it's important before anyone gets to far that they are aware of that. Will also make it a better experience for anyone who still browses r/Hobbydrama.
Both fair takes and I like the idea of having reposts marked. Like Kadu said in another comment, when filtering becomes available assumably this will be a good way for people who use both communities to filter out what they've already seen. Thank you for the input!
I would absolutely recommend keeping the waiting period, and not just because of biased hot takes. We've all seen drama stories where the context changes radically in a very short time, and even the basic premise of the drama might change. If we keep the waiting period, we have a better chance of having the FULL story in a single post without needing update posts every week as the story unfolds.
That's true. I totally forgot HD used to have a bunch of mini update posts before the rule was instituted. Since no one seems to mind 14 days we'll probably just keep it at that then. I've seen people complain about it on the HD subreddit, but if no one over here minds it then no reason to change it I think.
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.
I personally think that reposting should require the permission of the original author (not just in this community, but in general). I guess this is an unpopular opinion, but giving credit just means you aren’t plagiarizing. It doesn’t mean that someone else’s work is now yours to repost in full on another site. A bot for reposting news links is one thing, but it really bugs me to see someone’s writing that they put a lot of work into posted to a different site without their knowledge.
The only reason I don't care all that much is because it's all online in public, it's made to be shared. Do you get upset when someone steals your meme and doesn't credit you? The internet is just made for this kind of spread. It's why comic creators use tags. Where do you draw the line for what online text is shareable or not shareable?
I feel like memes are made and meant to be shared hence the name. I feel a hobby drama post is more like a blog post to a community they are a member of. They are sharing it with members of that community and not intentionally sharing it with other communities. I also think asking for permission seems like a good middle ground between reposting all hobby drama posts from Reddit and banning all reposts.
I don’t get fussed about it for myself because I know there is a large population on the internet that considers everything fair game and I post accordingly (not that I create so much stuff that everyone wants, haha). I learned that lesson twenty years ago when I spent ages in MS Paint creating a forum avatar for myself and soon started to see it popping up on other people’s profiles. I realized then that something might be legally* mine, but good luck enforcing that. Maybe most people also realize that and post knowing that they will be losing some control, but I don’t think that means we just give up all courtesy.
As far as sharing, I’m all for it - it is absolutely one of the best things about the internet. But to me it means sharing the link - “hey guys go read this cool thing” and then people can go and read and engage with the author on their work. Maybe you include some quotes with the link to give some context for sharing. It’s the wholesale cut+paste for the purpose of building up a different community that the author is not part of that I don’t care for.
Where I draw the line is a good question and I’m doubtless not always consistent. Memes? To me, the sharing and transforming is part of the nature of a meme - images are combined, text is updated or replaced, etc. Comics? Sharing one panel or whatever and directing to the artist’s site seems like the courteous thing to do, but if you are reposting so many of the artist’s comics that people just read your posts instead of going to the artist’s site I would consider that a problem.
Additionally, one benefit of requesting permission from the authors may be to attract some of them over here. I’d love to have more users passionate enough to write 5000 words about some obscure stamp collecting scandal on lemmy.
Anyway, that’s my 17 cents.
*this is from a US perspective, but I’m no lawyer
100% agree with this. We should have the courtesy to ask the author for permission before spreading their work. They should be aware it was posted here in case they would like to respond to comments or if they need to make edits.