Hi Everyone,
This is the first real meta post here on !formula1@lemmy.world, the community has grown very quickly and there is great engagement on race weekends. We are the biggest F1 sub on Lemmy and it’s time to start thinking about how we want this community to run.
First up, to introduce the mod team, alongside myself we now have @wes@lemmy.world and @bwoah@lemmy.world. Wes has been responsible for posting all of the discussion threads for practice sessions, quali and races, and Bwoah is active everyday posting new interesting new content and analysis, big thanks to both of them they have really helped to grow the sub.
Moving forwards; we need some basic rules to keep the sub running smoothly, as a mod team we have 3 that are important to us;
- Be respectful to everyone; drivers, lemmings, redditors etc
This is a welcoming community, and that means being respectful to everyone inside and outside of it. While we understand there are tense moments, it doesn’t mean anyone needs to resort to name calling or being derogatory. No hate speech of any kind. That doesn’t mean you can’t call out a driver or a team for mistakes, but do it in a constructive and friendly way.
- No gambling, crypto or NFTs
There is a wealth of evidence that shows the impact of gambling advertising on everyone, in particular children and those who have suffered from gambling disorder, including increasing intent to gamble. Members of this community should not be exposed to or encouraged to gamble, or partake in risky behaviours that could result in financial loss.
- Spoilers are allowed
Spoilers are a contentious issue, but the majority of fans are watching the race live and are excited about results. For those of use that can’t follow every practice and qualifying session, having access to results immediately is better than trawling the web to see what happened. While sometimes it isn’t possible to watch a race live, avoiding social media and news sites until you are caught up is something a lot of us are used to, and is the only guaranteed way to avoid spoilers which would be very hard to moderate.
Now, we want some community feedback and suggestions on the following;
- websites that force login or have a paywall When users post content from a website that isn’t openly accessible, how should that be handled? A non-editorialised summary or copy of the article in the comments?
- Non English articles
How should the community handle non English articles? Google translate? Fan translations? No translations?
- Social Media Content
Should social media content be linked to, or screenshotted, or both? Many people don’t have accounts on instagram, twitter, facebook, and don’t want to sign up to read a single comment. Should users credit the original poster in the title eg [Photographer - Lemmy.world]
My strategy on Reddit, which worked very well there but I’ve been too lazy so far to recreate here, was to create separate accounts. I had one account that just followed f1 stuff, and another one that followed all my general content and had all the f1 subs explicitly blocked. That way I have to actively choose to switch over to my f1 account if I want to see f1 content, which I just wouldn’t do until I’d seen the race.
A lot of the lemmy apps, like voyager and Memmy, already have good support for account switching, so I highly recommend this strategy if watching the race later is a regular occurrence for you. I’m sure eventually I’ll bother to do this myself.
Alternatively, whenever the analogous multireddit feature gets implemented in lemmy, that could allow you to do effectively the same thing with one account. But not yet, unfortunately.