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Community Rules
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Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).
Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.
Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.
Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very "off topic".
Bigotry is not allowed, this includes (but is not limited to): Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Sexism, Abelism, Classism, or discrimination based on things like Ethnicity, Nationality, Language, or Religion.
Avoid shilling for corporations, posting advertisements, or promoting exploitation of workers.
Proselytization, support, or defense of authoritarianism is not welcome. This includes but is not limited to: imperialism, nationalism, genocide denial, ethnic or racial supremacy, fascism, Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, etc.
Avoid AI generated content.
Avoid misinformation.
Avoid incomprehensible posts.
No threats or personal attacks.
No spam.
Moderator Guidelines
Moderator Guidelines
- Don’t be mean to users. Be gentle or neutral.
- Most moderator actions which have a modlog message should include your username.
- When in doubt about whether or not a user is problematic, send them a DM.
- Don’t waste time debating/arguing with problematic users.
- Assume the best, but don’t tolerate sealioning/just asking questions/concern trolling.
- Ask another mod to take over cases you struggle with, if you get tired, or when things get personal.
- Ask the other mods for advice when things get complicated.
- Share everything you do in the mod matrix, both so several mods aren't unknowingly handling the same issues, but also so you can receive feedback on what you intend to do.
- Don't rush mod actions. If a case doesn't need to be handled right away, consider taking a short break before getting to it. This is to say, cool down and make room for feedback.
- Don’t perform too much moderation in the comments, except if you want a verdict to be public or to ask people to dial a convo down/stop. Single comment warnings are okay.
- Send users concise DMs about verdicts about them, such as bans etc, except in cases where it is clear we don’t want them at all, such as obvious transphobes. No need to notify someone they haven’t been banned of course.
- Explain to a user why their behavior is problematic and how it is distressing others rather than engage with whatever they are saying. Ask them to avoid this in the future and send them packing if they do not comply.
- First warn users, then temp ban them, then finally perma ban them when they break the rules or act inappropriately. Skip steps if necessary.
- Use neutral statements like “this statement can be considered transphobic” rather than “you are being transphobic”.
- No large decisions or actions without community input (polls or meta posts f.ex.).
- Large internal decisions (such as ousting a mod) might require a vote, needing more than 50% of the votes to pass. Also consider asking the community for feedback.
- Remember you are a voluntary moderator. You don’t get paid. Take a break when you need one. Perhaps ask another moderator to step in if necessary.
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I had this computer. I was pirating everything on Limewire & Napster on average at like 5-40 kilobytes per second. Had a hidden porn folder my family couldn't find because of course this was the family computer. I was chatting it up with girls on AOL messenger and myspace, blogging the most cringe and emo crap on xanga, and checking slashdot and digg everyday. I was playing all kinds of wild and comically shitty themed Starcraft & Warcraft pvp custom maps and spending hours upon hours on Runescape getting the stupidest skills leveled up with macros and luring people into the wilderness to gank em. I was making Dragon Ball Z anime music videos to Linkin Park, Incubus, Rancid & Rage Against the Machine songs. Printing off hundreds and hundreds of pages of guitar tabs, 90% of which I would never play because I wasn't that good, printing out game guides, cheat codes, gameshark codes, and let us not forget mapquest directions. Was making shitty JavaScript gundam games. Downloading cracks and keycode gens for all kinds of software. I was responsible for at least one virus that made us reimage. Burning all my favorite songs on cds and making mix tapes for friends. I had that sick 3D pipe & 3d maze screensaver. Drinking surge and eating pizza bites.
When this computer was retired as the family computer it became my first Linux PC.
What a time to be alive.
Edit: I keep editing when new memories pop up.
Damn you're old! Me too. I lived many of these memories even down to the tabs! 🎸