Hello everyone! To start out, I’d once again like to say thank you to every single one of you for being here. We’re building something awesome here together, and I’m grateful you’ve been with us so far.
Let’s go over the changes we made this past week, and tell you about our fresh moderation bot to clear any concerns you may have.
Changes in the Sidebar
You might have noticed that we made some changes in the sidebar; specifically to our list of rules. The formatting has completely changed to adopt spoilers for rules, which now allows you to expand rules on click, instead of seeing an unkept wall of text in our sidebar.
This means that we now also have a lot more empty text space in the sidebar. Some rules still need further elobaration to fill their empty slots & we’d always appreciate your help and suggestions!
New Tools for Community Moderators
This community is now a month old! And that comes with new updates to help us moderate & navigate easier. We now have a new AutoMod deployed, though its interaction with members will be kept to a minimum. It mainly does three things: notifying, logging and transcripting. It does not censor any words and doesn’t intervene with our users in any way.
The bot works by transcripting and linking all of the content to a dedicated matrix chatroom(used as a log). This allows moderators to just take a look at the log to make sure everything is okay, rather than scrolling through posts one by one. It also redirects all reports to a seperate chatroom, which is normally used by our moderators to communicate and work together. Moderators can also make the bot send transcripts of comment chains on command, so they can discuss what to do about it together.
note: much thanks to our hardworking moderator @[email protected] for the bot!
Let us know! How do you like everything here?
Let’s improve our list of rules together, and please let us know any concerns you may have regarding the bot & our approach to moderating. We really want this community to be one truly owned by its users, meaning you, and nothing in this c/ comes before that.
Matrix Chat Room
To find & join our chat room for casual discussion and support, log into a matrix client and put #nostupidquestions:matrix.org on the search bar. If you’ve never used Matrix before, we suggest you try using fluffychat.im first, as it has a more user-friendly interface.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community space dedicated to being helpful and answering each others’ questions on various topics.
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All posts titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That’s it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it’s in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content. Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.
Partnered Communities
You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.
Community Moderation
For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.
Matrix Chat Room
To find & join our chat room, log into fluffychat.im(or any other matrix client) and put #nostupidquestions:matrix.org on the search bar.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
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