There needs to be actual content rules. TIL worked best when the mods actually adhered to those content rules. Otherwise you just have people posting all kinds of nonsense. Quality is better than quantity
This post doesn’t tell me what you learned today!
There are content rules. Take a look at the sidebar of this community. This post violated rule 6.
@[email protected] This is on the microblog, not the main thread posting area.
This community is on lemmy.world from what I can see. You might be interacting with it through kbin, but that doesn’t mean there are no rules here. That’s my only point.
It’s amazing how many folks want no content. This place already is a graveyard.
[email protected] is more active
1 post in the last 6 hours. This place is empty.
There is at least a post daily:
The community we are currently in had a 4 days gap earlier this week:
Also, feel free to post if the lack of content bothers you
@[email protected] content dumping isn’t an improvement.
Any specific examples?
Qaulity is better than … trying to post the whole article as a headline.
this is what happens when lemmy tries to handle microblog content not specifically tailored to it’s exact quirks
That would require active mods, most of them haven’t been active anywhere on Lemmy for months
[email protected] is more active
Are you trying to prove your own point?
Anything specific in mind? I haven’t seen anything here that seemed inappropriate for the community.
@[email protected] Is this in regards to my thread about Roko’s Basilisk? I checked the sidebar before posting, and didn’t see anything that suggests it was a bad fit for this community.
Perhaps people on Lemmy just aren’t learning anything.
You’re gatekeeping how/what people learn?
oof.
@[email protected] no? Magazines should have standards for their posts so that a community can be formed and grow around those principles. The principle of ‘just post whatever you want’ doesn’t encourage much beyond post anything. The only real restrictions on posting in the rules are: no baiting, promoting agendas or self-promotion.
There is nothing there on how you present what it is you’ve learned beyond ‘start it with TIL’. There isn’t even a hard requirement that you link to the source, which makes no sense.
Requiring users to actually link to a reliable source to back up what it is they’ve learned, and to present the knowledge in an objective and readable manner should be a bare minimum.