Thinking About Community Rules

UPDATE - Rules adapted to include a link to the official Imzy Community Policy page, which covers a lot of the stuff below. -J

As you've probably seen, our community rules are currently pretty broad. As this community grows, I'd like to get them a bit more specific, and I'm wondering what y'all would and wouldn't like to see here: what you see as defining the J&MXtX-M community, concerns, questions, and so on.

Some ideas I'm batting around so far:

  • No commercial links without context or commentary
  • (Or maybe no links without context or commentary, period? Even a cursory "I think this is cool" helps a lot to foment discussion!)
  • Civil and inclusive language are absolute givens for me. Do you think we need to get more specific than that? My strong instinct is to feel that part out as we go, but if folks would be more comfortable with more specific language, please let me know. Likewise, "civil and inclusive" seems to me like it would also cover "no hate-speech"; but, again, if folks would be more comfortable with that rule made explicit, I can.
  • Work-safe within the community; and tag any NSFW links. For the obvious reasons, but I'd also really like this to be a community that's both all-ages-friendly (within Imzy's guidelines, so, 13+) and has space for more adult-oriented conversations.
  • Content warnings. This is a tough one for me, because it's such an individual issue. We don't really do trigger warnings on the podcast, but we'll occasionally add a note to the beginning of an episode that's covering something that seems likely to be particularly disturbing content--sexual violence, suicide, &c. Ideally, I'd like to leave this to the discretion of individual community members--along with strong encouragement to tag potentially upsetting material.