Hello World!

We’ve made some changes today, and we’d like to announce that our Code of Conduct is no longer in effect. We now have a new Terms of Service, in effect starting from today(October 19, 2023).

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The new Terms of Service can be found at https://legal.lemmy.world/

In this post our community mods and users may express their questions, concerns, requests and issues regarding the Terms of Service, and content moderation in Lemmy.World. We hope to discuss and inform constructively and in good faith.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      The best way to fuck a democratic process up is making votes public. No one should feel like there’s a “deterrent” to voting. All that does is create incentive to reward/punish people for how they vote.

      Voting is what fuels the content aggregation, too. It is a very bad idea to deter people from voting how they please because it strangles the algorithm of the data it needs to sort the content. You want people voting, a lot. That’s what makes the whole thing work.

      Edit: which is to say nothing of how bad it will get when people make tools that help automate retaliation for downvotes. You can potentially state an opinion in a comment and set up a bot to auto block every downvoter, then share that list publicly. You may think that sounds like a great system for weeding out hate but I promise you it’s going to be far messier than that, and more importantly, this kind of retaliatory shit hurts the aggregation even more.

  • jarfil@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    This seems to bring LW closer to Reddit. /s

    But seriously, what is the point of all of this? It only seems to overcomplicate things. Now a user will have to:

    • Follow the ToS
    • Follow the CoC
    • Follow whatever rules a community’s sidebar states
    • Match whichever mod’s interpretation of all the above

    In that order, or any other order? I see nothing about protesting the breach of the ToS by either the CoC or some community, or some community’s mod… so which supersedes which?

    How is this going to be communicated to users commenting/posting from other instances? Or is this only applicable to users registered on this instance? In which case, what is going to be applicable to federated users?

    What are the user’s rights?

    • Users Responsibilities: 4.x
    • Our Rights: 6.x
    • Users Rights: none?

    If you want to establish this as a legal document, then you’re missing at least a section.

    If this is about giving as many reasons as possible to remove/ban content/users, it’s all unnecessary, just say “mods can remove/ban whatever”; it’s a private instance, you can do that.

    If this is about having a ruleset that protects the users from arbitrary mod decisions… I see none of that in there.