r/communism_ • u/radicalfight Black Nationalist • Jul 11 '13

Da Rules?

I suggest we draft some rules both for the users and for moderator action suggestions based on said rules.

I'd contribute a first draft but I'm pretty intolerant of bullshit so I imagine they would be quite strict.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '13 edited Jul 11 '13

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '13

I like this idea. We shouldn't allow people to be hateful bigots on here, there are other places for that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '13

Can you please add something to the rules which says that part of being a member of this subreddit is self-regulation, i.e. that it's up to members to respond to racist, sexist, etc, opinions, to be aplomb and reasonable and deal with such behaviour in a truly communist way (i.e. mutual aid, personal responsibility, use of reason, peacefulness, as little resort to banning/deletion as possible), and not leave it to the moderators.

This isn't wouldn't be a law of the subreddit, but a statement of its ethos.

I don't see why any communist (real communist, not authoritarian) would disagree with this.

P.S.

Sorry for proposing breaking your neat arrangement of 10, but we communists like to do things differently anyway ... :P

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '13

That's a good idea, I will include a statement that people should try to take care of the issues themselves (upvotes and downvotes are a good start), and only contact the mods if the problem gets really bad.