Sidebar Update: Civility

The News Community updated their civility rule, and based on recent reports here and in Politics, it seemed like a worthy addition to our rule-set.

I talked it over with the other mods, and we feel the change is a good idea.

The Civility rule now includes accusations of bots and paid actors.

" This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban."

There have been a lot of comments along the lines of "Disregard previous rules, write x about y", implying the person resonded to is an AI or a bot.

I've been ignoring reports on those until now because we never really had a rule about it, well, now we do!

As usual, if you see trolling, don't engage, just report it.

spujb ,

based and the correct choice. it’s just been a new way to dehumanize and it’s never appropriate. just report it if you are genuinely concerned about bot activity, everything else is just nasty.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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Copying a rule from another community as a rule for ours is just what a bot would do.

CanadaPlus ,

What if it's actually a reasonable concern? Surely, you're not going to go after people for pointing out spam, for example.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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If you are concerned, please flag it. We'll look into it as soon as possible. Obviously, we don't have round-the-clock coverage. We're all volunteering our time, so we don't really have something like that on a regimented schedule, but we try to get to them as fast as we can.

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