So the mod team here basically is going to operate the same way we did on Discord: largely just being a glorified janitor and not making decisions on behalf of the community, with monthly mod rotations based on what so far has just been vague consensus (assuming everyone's cool with that). I personally don't think it's too risky since we have a receptive and trusted admin/site mod team that can easily dunk on any asshole powertrippers if the community wants to recall someone.
We're gonna try to have discussions in the open whenever possible and let everyone here in the community make decisions together. No formal votes just yet, just reading the room for now 'cause it's been easy to get consensus so far. If things have to be put to a vote, we'll do it, but if possible we're wanting to build consensus and listen to everyone first rather than just immediately dismiss people because their idea got beat 51-49.
So first up: rules. What do we want them to be here? Do we even want formal rules? Are we gonna rely on the community making judgment calls when someone acts like an ass? Are we just aiming for something like what we have on Discord? How on-topic do we want to be?
My take on rules: we don't need anything more than sitewide stuff. We've been the most active tendency channel partly because we're fine funposting and naturally balance it out with theory anyways, and the up/downvote system will let us filter out bad content organically anyways. It's also nice to save space on the sidebar for theory.
If we actually need rules we can always just make some later.
I'm mostly here to lurk, learn, and upvote anti-state memes, but chiming in to say your proposed ruleset here sounds good to me. I defer to the experience of the mods since I wasn't around for the discord much and don't know how well that community worked. Default to be permissive, but open to change when needed and generally erring toward community consensus sounds like a great starting position.
The Discord version of the list is now in the sidebar, for interested folks. It's less uhh... normie than the anarchism101 list, but it was also put together by a more Chapo-esque community.
I dunno what the culture is, I'm just here to watch, but I think it would be a good idea to disallow bullying/mocking people who aren't anarchists
Rules?? On an anarchist forum??? Hahaha sorry, couldn't resist. Nothing to contribute, just glad this place exists . :af-heart:
I think anything outside of slurs and personal attacks should be allowed
I agree that we shouldn't have additional rules, we're anarchists! Also, I concur on mod rotation being a good idea.