Hey there!
First off, I wanted to say on behalf of the entire mod team that we hoped this place would be successful but none of us expected to reach over 1,000 subscribers in 96 hours. That’s incredible and we are extremely humbled and grateful. The community has thrived and we’re so happy to see so many people engaging with the community, whether thats posts or comments. Things have really kicked off and we hope things only get better from here!
That being said, we as mods do have some work to do. This community was made with the idea that we would have clear rules written for our users so you knew when to expect intervention from the moderation team. We’re all pretty new at this and while we have the advice and experience of others who have been doing this for far long, we do have to still update things as they go.
There have been some posts made recently that were reported and brought to light. The mod team has been discussing it behind the scenes and we decided we needed to address it by adding a couple of more rules to the sidebar. If we started removing posts without giving explanations on the side of what to expect, then we’ve failed in our original purpose for the community. So the new rules being added are as follows:
The first new one is No AI Art. It hurts the creative community overall but is also very low-effort in general. There are many communities in which AI can work but this isn’t one of them.
The second is No reposts within 1-2 months. We’re keeping the timeframe vague because mistakes happen and you might not be aware of if posts did happen at all. Then there’s the factor of how popular that post was and whether it would have easily been seen. However we’re really generous and understand that not everyone is active at all times. Reposts within 48 hours? That’s something different.
The third new one is Limit of 3-4 posts per hour. Honestly that’s probably more than anyone really needs to begin with but we don’t want to hamper the community. If things grow and activity does too then we can definitely revisit this but as it stands, posting 5 posts within the space of 30 minutes is essentially spam.
We hope that everyone understands the changes we’ve made and that more changes may come in the future, especially so early on in the lifespan of /c/TenForward. Thank you guys for your time, patience, activity, engagement and love. We all feel it here at the mod team and reflect it back at you.
Live long and prosper!
What about the rule no reheating fish in the replicators. The smell never leaves
That’s the real reason why the saucer separation was invented.
I wonder if people in Star Trek ever just put the food back in the replicator to be reconstituted as the same thing, but warmer?
Do replicators reheat? I’ve been using my phasor, stun for 15 seconds is enough for most meals.
15 seconds? … oh … gotta turn it down then … been wondering why my fish keeps evaporating like that
Wait, YOU’RE the one that keeps setting off the ship’s alarm?
… That’s not the done timer?
That’s definitely worthy of consideration
I was one of the A.I.-generated art posters. I’m slightly bummed, but I get it. There are moral issues to consider, and it does require relatively little effort on the creative side. I mean, I myself do prefer seeing custom stuff that was created manually by community members.
So glad to see the transparency with rule changes/additions. You guys are doing all right. Thanks for making this a fun, cozy, safe place to hang out in.
Create a community titled “Holodeck” for AIgen Star Trek content.
i think this is a brilliant idea
That is a pretty good compromise
Oh no you’ll have to post your AI-generated schlock to one of the 10,000 ai-gen communities instead of spamming popular communities
Well, that was rude and uncalled for. What did I ever do to you?
I thought your post was really reasonable and conciliatory despite the fact that you were feeling disappointed. I like the idea of a separate sub called holodeck for AI trek stuff. Or otherwise use your creations in the comment sections here to change people’s opinions over time? It’s still in its infancy
Thank you! Curation is important for keeping the content worthwhile
Congrats on the insane amount of people that beamed aboard, that’s awesome!
There’s so many of us, they’ve started putting us in Cargo Hold 7.
I’m going to piggyback on this post to say hey to the community, and also - as a lover of posting Star Trek nonsense - that I’m happy to be helping out with some of the moderating.
I also want to communicate that while our goal is to add clear, common-sense rules to the sidebar as needed, it’s impossible to predict every single situation that could occur, so there’s still going to be an element of judgement in resolving some things. In those instances, I believe that having a large group of mods who are all very active in the community and can consult with each other is a decent strategy to reduce errors in individual judgment, however we’re also human, so if you feel that we need to reconsider something, feel free to DM one of us and we’ll bring it up to the group.
We’re all just looking to laugh at memes and geek out over cool Trek stuff at the end of the day. See y’all around!
Funny seeing “No AI” after loudly demanding that the Risa mod allow AI content.
When I used to mod on startrekgifs we had a similar rule of no more than 4 posts in 24 hrs. Pain to check but definitely keeps the quality of content up 👍.
Nice work on the rules!
Hate the no AI rule. Utterly nonsense bandwagon.
Well, on the one hand, extremely disappointed to see the anti-AI bandwagon driving through here too. It’s particularly ironic that a meme community has rules like this, already 99% consisting of existing content recycled and pasted together like how people often misunderstand AI to work.
But at least the rule is explicit, so it’s a small step up from c/risa, I guess.
