Sidebar Update: Civility

The News Community updated their civility rule, and based on recent reports here and in World News, 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.

  • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
    323·
    4 months ago

    What tools does this instance have to actually discover and restrict inauthentic behavior?

    Lemmy is wide open to bots and trolls; it should be fair game to point out activity that correlates with known troll behavior from nation-state psyop on down to jackass edgelord.

  • Delta_V@lemmy.world
    299·
    4 months ago

    Are bots now explicitly permitted? Or is just that users are banned from revealing them, making bots implicitly permitted?

    edit: this is exactly the sort of BS that drove me away from Reddit - shutting down the 3rd party accessibility apps was messed up, but when they started banning people for reporting rule violations it became intolerable

  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    61·
    4 months ago

    Depersonalisation as an attack in a political context has a long history, AI paranoia is just the newest iteration of this.

    I guess, AI paranoia is comparable to calling someone a government mole in meatspace.

  • mindbleach
    2·
    4 months ago

    If “I think you’re trolling” is forbidden, your forum is for trolls.

  • return2ozma@lemmy.world
    119·
    4 months ago

    " 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."

    So nobody’s going to call me a Russian bot anymore?

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
    22·
    4 months ago

    Similar to reddit, only the popular opinion gets support, everything else gets attacked. Since it is mostly Americans and American politics, it’s mostly a very western centric viewpoint that many other parts of the world label as propagandist. It’s literally taught in German textbooks for example.

    On reddit the user base is large enough that some alternate opinions got through. Here you get banned or removed if you don’t tow the line of America #1.

    Not everyone that disagrees with your viewpoint is a troll. Not everyone that has a global view of the world is a paid Russian bot. Some are very easy to spot as written by LLMs. But most are not.

    I think you’re going down a very slippery slope here. All those reddit subs that become echo chambers started this way.