this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
8 points (90.0% liked)

University of British Columbia

205 readers
2 users here now

The Lemmy community of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada!

To contact the mods, we recommend sending a modmail on Reddit until there is an equivalent feature on Lemmy. If you want, you can also message @Otter on Lemmy.

UBC Wiki

A community project with:

Full Guidelines

Summarized Guidelines:

  1. Be polite: Treat each other with respect. No slurs (ex. racial, gender, homophobic, mental health, etc.)

  2. Engage in good faith: If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.

  3. Use Megathreads: If your question can go in a megathread or stickied post, you must post it there.

  4. Keep content relevant: Posts must be related to UBC or its community. All memes must be OC and/or explicitly related to UBC.

  5. Follow community rules: This includes illegal activities, linking to unauthorized copyrighted materials, doxxing, and violations of UBC academic conduct policy (read more).

  6. Advertisements: UBC affiliated non-profit organizations may advertise within reasonable limits. Everyone else must contact us before posting. No private advertisement of any sale or purchase. (read more).

  7. Surveys: Surveys should be posted only if they are related to UBC or are of unique interest to the UBC community. Only some survey types are allowed (read more).

  8. No discussion of foreign politics unless it has clear and direct implications for the UBC community (read more).

  9. Lost & Found Posts are only allowed for some items (read more). Found posts SHOULD NOT include images or descriptors (color, location) of the item. Pictures with personal information are also prohibited.

In addition, we strongly frown upon reposts and LQ posts, and such posts may be removed.

If you see a post or comment which is not in accordance with these guidelines please use the report feature and DO NOT ENGAGE with it.

FAQs/Megathreads:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
otter
lifeiswonderful1
ash
Smirkane
8
Why do you use Lemmy? (self.ubc)
submitted 2 years ago by yjk to c/ubc
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Title. With the ubc subreddit opening back up again it'll probably be much harder to enough of a network effect going unless we have some coordination with the reddit mods.

Personally I'm trying to transition away from user-hostile software and minimize my exposure to proprietary software in general. The reddit API changes didn't affect me personally but I don't want to support the company by continuing to use it. How about you guys?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] otter 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Another way would be to post helpful content in this community and then link to it on /r/UBC

We could discuss other promotion options around the start of term, but I'd prefer letting the community grow based on people finding useful content. That's how /r/UBC grew so big since I don't think they advertised much, past that one time years ago

[–] yjk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What about mirroring certain discussion posts/comments (by hand, just crossposting them) from reddit to here, and answering them here?

[–] otter 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That sounds good!