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Posted by6 days ago

Rules 3 and 4 - notice of updates

Hi all

Below are the wording changes for Rules 3 and 4. They'll be rolled out into the sub in the coming days.

Rule 4 was removed because it's basically difficult to enforce and there is little to no benefit in a rule that has no enforcement potential. It doesn't alter behaviours or give a provable evidentiary trail of misconduct that we could action.

Nor were users particularly of a mind to use the downvote function as intended.

The existing Rule 3 was instead split, into a rule for posts, and rule for comments in response. That way, we can have a clear split between the opening to a discussion, and its subsequent engagement.

This also provides greater clarity over the issue of Sky News "articles" that were basically just tweets with added ad revenue for News Ltd.


Rule 3- Posts need to be high quality

News and analysis posts need to be substantial, demonstrate journalistic values, and encourage or facilitate discussion. Links to articles with minimal text will be removed. Links to videos without context or transcripts will be removed unless a substantial public interest can be demonstrated. Opinion posts that are toxic; insulting; fact-free, or consist solely of soapboxing or cheer-leading will be removed. Greater leeway will be granted to opinion posts authored by political figures. This will be judged at the full discretion of the mods.

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Posted by7 days ago

(Some)Mods don't like sticking to their own rules

If u/iamsando wants to have it out, let's have it out.

Rule 1 is clear, that isn't in dispute. If mods want to have any level of credibility they need to hold themselves to a higher standard. IamSando doesn't on a number of topics, goes straight for R1, gets his back up when the comments are legimately reported for the Harrassment they are and then hides behind mod actions when called out for it.

If this double standard is what the mods want, then one can only expect lazy name calling the other way around.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/14da3fz/are_health_regulators_turning_a_blind_eye_to/jorlawj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/14da3fz/are_health_regulators_turning_a_blind_eye_to/joredfd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/14da3fz/are_health_regulators_turning_a_blind_eye_to/jordp27?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Now I'm at work today and will respond when time permits.

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Posted by11 days ago

It takes a remarkable effort for sexual assault victims...

to share their story with others, especially via the national media.

Amanda Stoker was extremely brave, and made this effort.

I thought it was disheartening and disgusting that the mods decided to trivialise the abuse Amanda suffered by saying "it adds nothing new". It absolutely does add something new. If the stories are true, this man has sexually assaulted multiple women, and got away with it for years. There have been 5-6 posts about Thorpe's allegations, but we can't have one about Amanda's? Her story can't be told? What if there are other (alleged) victims? Will their stories also be silenced?

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Posted by12 days ago

Polls

Can we get some more polls up.....

Been a while since we have had polls. Maybe the mods could take suggestions about what kind of polls could be done.... maybe some regular polls to help describe the current participants.

We could also have more polls regarding current politicla issues or any current legislations being discussed...

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Posted by12 days ago

Katy Gallagher and lying to parliament and the public.

I don't want to discuss the rape allegation or anything else to do with the trial, but I think we should be able to discuss the Gallagher comments and her behaviour. She clearly lied when she said "no one had any knowledge" in senate estimates, then later admitting to having prior knowledge. Politicians lying like this should be dragged over the coals for it.

How can we discuss this seperate issue without the thread being taken down? Every article on the matter also refers to Higgins allegations so would get removed under the current ban.

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Posted by13 days ago

So how's the blackout going?

Did we win yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXZj4Wy58Pk&ab_channel=OnlineHandle

Pretty much my thoughts atm.

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