Sorry for two new pinned posts within the span of 24 hours. after coming back I figured some of the rules needed some updating, and it is policy to put any rule change up to vote for the members.
The two changes I currently would like to make, is increased enforcement of the moldy posting rule, and a new rule banning AI generated content.
moldy posting is when you post a meme that you would find on your aunt’s Facebook page or Elon musk’s Twitter account. I’m talking properly old, moldy, watermarked, painfully irrelevant posts. I think we should remove them simply because they kind of suck, and removing them would raise the level of quality of 196.
I believe we should ban AI generated content because it is exploitative by nature, and I don’t think we should be feeding it.
please discuss in the comments, and vote on whether or not you think these changes should be made. vote on each change separately. if there are any other rule changes that you would like to suggest, now is the time.
I am painfully unaware if a post might be moldy because I don’t social media much and I like stupid things, so let me know if something I post is moldy and I’ll machete it.
Edit oh and these rules are reasonable I’d say
I’m in favor of the anti AI rule but against the anti moldy posts rule.
Also, could you remove that image from the post, I almost reported the post for “unflagged NSFW” because of it.
Edit: Reported it after an hour for the “unflagged NSFW” maybe that will get their attention on removing the image from the post because there’s literally no reason for it to be there.
Totally in favor in banning AI content.
Sometimes moldy content is funny, often times it just doesn’t land. Part of my concern with a moldy ban is that it seems a bit vaguely defined as is.
Agreed. One man’s mold is another man’s psychedelic substance. It’s a subjective line that varies for everyone.
AI is easy because the line is clear.
i’m not here to contribute to the discussion
i just wanted to say that chuck tingle is treasure to humanity
I don’t like the idea of increasing enforcement against moldy posts, just because I’m not super plugged in to things and I don’t always know if something is moldy when I post it. Over enforcement of those kind of subjective rules tends to make it difficult for newbies to post.
Completely on board with a no AI art rule though. Fuck AI.
I’m in favor of “Moldy Mondays” as some people have mentioned.
And I support banning AI images, but not when it’s like a Twitter screenshot that says something about the image.
I really disliked this feature of many reddit subs where they’d have day of the week themes and posts. This idea in itself is moldy, its just reminds me of a smelly office atmosphere.
