Since it’s slightly less than easy to glean the rules from the sidebar, here’s an itemized collection of rules. For example, the schadenfreude rule can be referred to as a)1.

a) Posts must be uplifting.

  1. This excludes schadenfreude.[1]

b) Posts must not overtly deal with toxic politics.[1]

c) Links must not be low-effort.[1]

  1. Links must not go to a copy of a copy of a copy.
    (Try finding the original source instead! Links do not have to be textual, so there’s no need to find a content farm to post a video.)
  2. Posts must not be fake news.

[1] https://lemmy.world/post/30918729

If there’s something you think that should be on here but isn’t, feel free to say so!

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Thank you for highlighting the rules! I think it was needed, and I’ve been meaning to ask about it after those recent posts a few days ago.

    Would you be able to put a summarized version of rules in the sidebar once you’ve decided on them, and then link back here for the full version? Sometimes the pinned posts don’t federate and people may gloss over the link.

    Markdown formatting wise, this is what I usually do now to have it look nice across different apps / front ends

    
### Rules:

**a) Posts must be uplifting.**

- This excludes [schadenfreude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude).^[1]^

**b) Posts must not overtly deal with toxic politics.** ^[1]^

**c) Links must not be low-effort.** ^[1]^

- Links must not go to a copy of a copy of a copy.  
(Try finding the original source instead! Links do not have to be textual, so there's no need to find a content farm to post a video.)
- Posts must not be fake news.

Notes:

- [1] https://lemmy.world/post/30918729

    Which would look like this:

    Rules:

    a) Posts must be uplifting.

    b) Posts must not overtly deal with toxic politics. [1]

    c) Links must not be low-effort. [1]

    • Links must not go to a copy of a copy of a copy.
      (Try finding the original source instead! Links do not have to be textual, so there’s no need to find a content farm to post a video.)
    • Posts must not be fake news.

    Notes:

    • Aatube@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I don’t think it’s possible to summarize the rules any further (besides dropping the parenthetical) without causing more people to just read the summarized summarized version and think they’ve understood all the rules and go on to break some rules. and there’s a certain charm to the persuasion-style sidebar we have i wanna preserve lol

      On the formatting: I’m very keen on preserving the semantic formatting of HTML. HTML without the style attribute is really only supposed to tell you the relation between the elements instead of styling things. It lays out how the page is organized so any client/user may decide how to customize that layout themselves if they want to. Replacing semantics with styling removes that semantic meaning and in certain cases can make it harder for screenreaders. Here, the semantics have to be inferred from the decoration.

      But thanks for your time!

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
    81·
    9 days ago

    I’d really like to see a time relevance rule.

    Uplifting news from months or years ago isn’t what I’m looking for, I want to see the good happening in the world right now.

    • Aatube@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      i think a lot of news from months ago has quite a bit of relevance to the current day, and i haven’t seen much posts about things that happened years ago. for the latter case i think it really depends on community sentiment reflected on the comments of said posts.

    • sga013@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      it can be personal news, but not something too personal. for example, you got a pet - you are happy - you feel like posting here - but we barely know you - we still upvote because we find you happy - but this news barely affects anyone. if it effects more than 1 tiny (4-5 people) group, that works. for example, a minority group got better rights in so and so region. be it very small, it is not really that personal, and we get happy.

  • kamenLady.@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Where are rules 2 (b), 5 (b) and 7 (a)? Does the star at point 6 represent a joker or a wildcard?

    • Aatube@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      okay this was something I worried about. I made sure to format the list with markdown syntax that would generate HTML for accessibility but it looks like it’s just made things more inaccessible. I’ll see if changing to headings make it better.