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This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

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No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

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[โ€“] Dremor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's indeed how I view this rule as a mod. Self promotion is ok, "excessive" self promotion isn't. I'm aware it is a bit vague, maybe we should explain it better on the sidebar to avoid unnecessary conflict. I'll bring it up on the moderation Discord.

But to make it clearer, my opinion on the matter is that excessive self-promotion amount to the following cases :

  • Making multiple post about the same topic, multiples time is a shortish amount of time. Like posting once, then reposting the following day if your topic didn't get as much traction as you'd have wished
  • Promoting things for monetary gains (sponsored links, etc.) without first disclosing it. As an example, I removed a service offering a backgammon online platform, by removing their first topic in order to make sure it was legit, which it seems to have been, not a ads/virus ridden website, which it wasn't, and not paid, which it didn't seem to be. As they happened to have made a new post in the meantime, I did not restore the first one, but did not remove the second one.

Of course that's my opinion of the rules, the other mods may have a different opinion on the matter. I try my best to find a balance in my decisions.

[โ€“] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Does Lemmy let you distinguish mod posts now? Neat.