1984

Hi all! Firstly, I want to thank everyone who has participated so far in this little experiment, I hope everyone had fun.

I have been thinking for a while now (and you will probably notice that no rule rotation has occurred yet), that things need to change somewhat to stay fresh.

The gameplay, right now, feels a bit stale to me. Maybe I am picking bad rules, but more likely, there's a problem with the core gameplay itself.

I am thinking, maybe the community should focus less on bot moderation (the bot has issues) and use traditional moderation instead. This would allow more subjective rules, and also would prevent the errors that the bot had.

I would like opinions on this; whether you think it should stay exactly how it is (of course adding more rule types as suggested), or should broader changes be made? Please comment below and let your opinions be heard!

I will have the community locked again for a bit whilst this is in discussion.

i am sorry that the timing of this post exceeds that of the usual refresh and i am quite hopeful you all will enjoy the new rules

Like seriously, thank you to all who have joined and are participating in this little experiment I decided to run. You all are the best.

Glory to Oceania! Big Brother is watching you!

Anyone banned last week is now un-banned.

I have now whitelisted myself in the bot, so hopefully I won't get banned again if I coded it correctly.

The bot is still very much unstable, so you may find that you get banned late. If so, that is because the bot likely crashed, and I haven't restarted it yet.

I have seen all the suggestions posted, and they all are awesome. I will slowly be writing more rule types into the bot. I hope one day to automate rule generation, but right now the bot is far too rudimentary and unstable for that.

Feel free to leave any feedback/suggestions about the community down below.

Disregard the last post, by the traitorous Moxvallix. He didn't believe in the power of Oceania, and will be spending some time in Room 101.

(The bot seems to work when used with a local account, and so I have decided that we can go ahead. Couldn't post from Moxvallix, as the bot banned me lmao.)

I was hoping this community could have started already, but unfortunately this bot library not working has caused some delays.

As soon as it is fixed, I'll have the community up and running.

Ignore this, I need to add Big Brother as mod.

If you are not familiar with the concept of this community please read this post.

If you have some ideas for rule templates this community could use, please leave them below.

As much as possible, I want rules to be able to be enforced by a moderation bot, so please only suggest rules that could be enforced in a programmatic way.

These templates will be used to create random rules, by choosing a random character, length etc.

Field Rules (Title or Body)

• Field must start with character
• Field must not start with character
• Field must end with character
• Field must not end with character
• Field must contain character
• Field must not contain character
• Field must contain phrase
• Field must exceed length
• Field must not exceed length
• Field must be lowercase
• Field may not use grammar
• Field must be capitalized
• Field must contain a link
• Field must be bold
• Field must be italic
• Field must contain a code block

Post Rules (Metadata about the Post)

• Post must have image
• Post must not have image
• Post must have URL
• Post must not have URL
• Post must stay under X amount of upvotes
• Post must stay under X amount comments

If you don't like any of these rule templates as well, make sure to let me know as well in the comments.

About this community, and what is to come…

I had an idea for a neat community. You know the 1984 meme, where people will call 1984 at the slightest hint of imposed authority? Well, what if I made a sublemmy all about being banned for arbitrary reasons.

My idea for this community: weekly, a new rule would be added to the community, replacing an older one. These would be arbitrary things such as “posts must start with a %” or “images are not allowed”. Then, the community would be moderated by a bot, scanning new posts for violating these rules. A Big-Brother-Bot if you will.

If you have been caught violating the rules, you are banned from the community until the next rule is added (so weekly unbans).

The idea is that it's a challenge to create a post conforming to all the rules. It should feel rewarding managing to post without receiving an instant ban. You can then always try again next week, if you do fail.

Apart from that gimmick, the community would allow anything to be posted, whether news, memes, etc (as long as they follow site rules of course).

This sublemmy will remain locked until I have written the bot. I’m hoping that will only take a week or two. Would appreciate help from anyone with more experience in that area. If you have any ideas/suggestions, please leave them below. I would also like to gauge interest in this idea, if people aren’t really interested in the idea, I may not go ahead with it. Just thought it could be a cool community premise.