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讨论中国的地方。

社区规则：

零、台湾、西藏、新疆、和香港都是中国的一部分。

一、不要跑题。

二、友善对待同志。

三、不要传播谣言或偏执思想。

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Discussion of new Rule 4: Do not promote or put drugs/alcohol/tobacco/weed/psychedelics/inhalants in a positive light. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by qwename@lemmygrad.ml to c/china@lemmygrad.ml

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Rule 4: Do not promote or put drugs/alcohol/tobacco/weed/psychedelics/inhalants in a positive light.

Some comrades mentioned in private channels that weed is not addictive, I'm not going to argue on this point because this is a fundamental divide between China and some western countries.

My view is that whether you're addicted to them or not, you shouldn't promote these substances or put them in a positive light. It's fine if you don't agree with me, but anyone who leaves a comment here arguing the opposite will be banned from the community (30 days for now).

If a lot of people oppose this rule, either by downvotes and/or number of comments, I will willingly step down as moderator of this community.

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[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

hexbear doesn't have downvotes. seems weird to preemptively make a rule when we're not going to change or productively debate chinese drug policy and weed/shrooms/lsd/whatever aren't part of any capitalist plots to re-run opium.

are you ideologically anti-drug like middle-aged white americans or is the motivation here about respecting the history and material conditions that caused china to be how it is?

[–] qwename@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the /c/China community on Lemmygrad.ml, not hexbear.net.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the no-downvotes includes federated posts even if the instance has them

[–] qwename@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One solution is for someone from hexbear to comment that they're against this new rule, and then people from hexbear can upvote that comment.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i doubt we're particularly fussed about the rule, i mostly commented because i'm broadly interested in the philosophy of moderation

[–] qwename@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Indeed, there should be a defined process for the introduction of new rules in a community, maybe in the form of suggestions, or when an incident requiring moderation occurred that wasn't covered by the rules. My next step might be making a post to receive suggestions for community rules, though /c/China isn't a particularly active community so there hasn't been many rule violations.