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View submission: Rules, Rules - Ya Gotta Have ‘Em!
I think the only real feedback I have for the rules, is rule 6 about misleading information. How exactly would you enforce that? Since I gather that it mostly applies to people who are intentionally misleading others, yes? I'm not entirely sure how you'd be able to tell if it was intentional, unless you've seen the user previously say something that shows that they understand it's false or misleading information (i.e if I said this sub has a karma requirement, when you would know that I know that it wouldn't, being for new users)
The only case of misleading that I can imagine you could be sure about, is people pretending to be mods here, if that's ever happened before. Chances are, they know full well if they are or aren't a moderator, as would any mods here.
I guess that should be included in the rules as well, especially for other users to make it clear if they speak of being a moderator, that they refer to their mod experience being elsewhere on Reddit, not here (unless applicable), so for example, "I have modded a subreddit about kittens being tactical, for years..." would be more clearly non-affiliated with this sub than "I have modded for years"
But otherwise, how would you be able to tell if someone's actually misleading another user deliberately? They could say something that's far from the truth, but they may just genuinely believe it themselves. After all, Reddit is confusing enough that this sub exists, so some well intended answer could just be very, very uninformed.
Comment by SolariaHues at 31/07/2023 at 18:19 UTC*
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Anything inaccurate we will at least comment on to correct. Sometimes removals are necessary, it depends on the content, but we give benefit of the doubt unless we have reason to believe it's deliberate, in which case the team would discuss the best course of action.
That's an interesting example. We do sometimes see comments phrased in such a way that it may lead the uninitiated to believe that person is a mod and we have asked for rephrasing in the past in those cases. I don't think we've had anyone deliberately pretending to be a mod.
[Edit - we do have a line on our helper page[1] about being careful not to sound like a mod here so as not to cause confusion. And a note in our reporting guide[2] about not engaging as if you are a mod when you are not - for user safety and to prevent confusion.]
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/wiki/index/helpers/
We make decisions based on the content itself and it's impact on the community and new users.
Comment by JR_Ferreri at 31/07/2023 at 19:23 UTC
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People are responsible for their words. If they say "I think...", "As far as I can tell...", "I feel..." that's an opinion that we correct by educating. If they are very new we give them the benefit of the doubt.
We've had users with plenty of karma and years on the platform make straight up false statements.
Sometimes it overlaps with "be kind" - someone says something deliberately wrong without adding /s because they think it is funny. We're careful about humor because it is never an excuse to confuse new people.
Sometimes it overlaps with soapboxing/ranting to some degree.