Hey fellow libertarians,
I’m writing this post because I really got annoyed by the recent increase of low effort and often also low information posts shared in this community. When I tried formulating the rules when creating this community, my main focus was to create a culture of civil and constructive discussion.
There are a lot of possible ways to contribute to this goal and I don’t want to exclude any type of content in any way. But to prevent meaningless spam, I thought about adjusting the 3d rule to better align with the aforementioned goals.
Lemmy offers the great opportunity to share an image or a link together with some text to explain it. Based on this, I’d add something like: “the context and relevance of otherwise textless or shared content should be explained in words by it’s contributor.” or “the information of shared/remote types of content should be evident from the post itself without the need of visiting the source.” Also, we could start requiring a TLDR for shared news posts.
What do you guys think?
I’m perfectly calm and at no point have I engaged in name calling. As for the redirects, nobody is required to take those. Those who want to engage in the discussion more may choose to follow the link, and others will not. No one- or two-sentence description will replace reading the full article. I can’t understand how you think the prior state of the community is superior. Most posts here don’t get more than a handful of comments, be it an external article or an essay written here.