Hey there! This is obviously a community in the vein of the reddit Hobby Drama subreddit, but I wanted to check in to see where we want to draw a few rules as a community. So to that end:
REPOSTING FROM REDDIT
I did see a few people were interested in having a bot auto repost from the reddit sub and most of our posts are reposts. My question here is should we have an anything from another site (reddit or otherwise) is fair game to repost with proper credit (let’s try to keep those links back to original write-ups, I feel this is only fair to the authors) rule or should permission be obtained from the author first for reposts (basically like r/bestofredditorupdates on reddit)?
DRAMA RESOLUTION WAITING PERIOD
The reddit sub has a 14 day waiting period for drama to conclude before a post can go up. As we’re obviously a smaller community I don’t see the need to be as stringent, but waiving the waiting period could lead to a lot of biased hot take posts. Would the community like to see the waiting period waived, lowered, remain?
ETA: this post is open for discussion until 7/24 so please do add your opinion even if you feel “late” to the discussion! It’s my goal to have the community rules updated by Friday 7/28 to fit our community a little better and knowing how our community feels as migration from reddit continues to take place will be a big assist.
Regarding reposts, in my opinion if your going copy an entire post and link back to the reddit post and user, no permission should be required. It’s really not much different than Google or any other website that might aggregate their content. If your going to summarize or change their post in anyway, then permission should definitely be required.
Waiting period definitely needs to remain, 14 days is a blink of an eye and the entire story could be reframed in that time.
Edit: I also would like to see any repost be forced to be submitted with something like Repost or [RP] in the title. I think it’s important before anyone gets to far that they are aware of that. Will also make it a better experience for anyone who still browses r/Hobbydrama.
Both fair takes and I like the idea of having reposts marked. Like Kadu said in another comment, when filtering becomes available assumably this will be a good way for people who use both communities to filter out what they’ve already seen. Thank you for the input!