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View submission: Rules, Rules - Ya Gotta Have ‘Em!
The rules look good! I have an observation though. For a few of the rules, it looks like you've combined two (or sometimes three) rules into one. For example, "be kind" is not the same thing as "no NSFW" but they have both been combined into one rule. NSFW content is not necessarily unkind, and unkind comments are not necessarily NSFW, so it may seem a bit confusing to newbies that those two concepts were combined into one rule. This isn't a criticism, it's just an observation. There's nothing "wrong" with it being done that way, but it just may be a bit confusing to some.
Comment by SolariaHues at 01/08/2023 at 00:11 UTC
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Thank you for the feedback!
We certainly don't consider all adult content unkind and didn't intend to suggest that.
We were trying to make the list shorter and more scannable and hopefully more likely to be read.
We'll keep that in mind and see how it goes.
Comment by JR_Ferreri at 01/08/2023 at 00:37 UTC
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This is by design.
One of the things that is stressed over and over for organizations of any kind is to keep your number of rules short. Different experts in different domains recommend no more than six rules, eight rules, five rules, it depends on the expert and the context but they all agree that less is better.
A standard way to approach this is to clump concepts that have the same end effect together under one rule. Rule one is about ensuring a safe environment. People being kind to each other and not seeing content that may be offensive to them falls under this concept.
I've seen numerous times on Reddit where people complained about a sub enforcing civil behavior because the sub didn't have a rule specially spelling it out. The person thought that Reddit's rule about keeping the human in mind didn't apply because it wasn't repeated.
Comment by formerqwest at 31/07/2023 at 21:39 UTC
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the mod team has spoken!