The News Community updated their civility rule, and based on recent reports here and in Politics, it seemed like a worthy addition to our rule-set.
I talked it over with the other mods, and we feel the change is a good idea.
The Civility rule now includes accusations of bots and paid actors.
" This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban."
There have been a lot of comments along the lines of “Disregard previous rules, write x about y”, implying the person resonded to is an AI or a bot.
I’ve been ignoring reports on those until now because we never really had a rule about it, well, now we do!
As usual, if you see trolling, don’t engage, just report it.
Hey if someone wants to pay me to be an actor than I am all for it as long as the money is right. Also how do we prove bots don’t exist. Or how do we prove it. Kind of like the Turing Test.
That’s a good question, and I had that discussion with an admin regarding a user who was posting all over the place in other communities.
I noted it was the same self promo spam over and over, but always as posts, never any comments.
I reacted that it felt bot-ish, the admin disagreed and thought it was a human who could be reasoned with. 🤷♂️
Not my communities so not my dance, we’ll see how it shakes out. I really doubt it’s a human.
Not my communities not my dance…you mind if I steal that from you?
Feel free! My wife also likes “Not my circus, not my monkeys.” ;)