🚨🚨Community rules update 🚨🚨 (Please read!)

Mornin' everyone.

I've gone through all the comments on the last thread and heard what was said. I've taken the previous rule set and amended them to be clearer, remove some redundancies and eliminate parts that most of you were feeling have and/or could hold us back from growth given we're a small community/magazine.

As such, the below is so far what I am thinking for the rules. Please review them and give your input in the comments (I'll leave it up for a few days to ensure Lemmy users have an opportunity to see it should it get buried lol).

Shouldn't be anything too surprising or nonsensical but if any of you have any concerns about how it's written, or if I left out anything pertinent please sound off so we can discuss and correct it!


  1. Be Civil.

Users are expected to be civil and inclusive towards one another at all times. Remember the person on the other side of the screen. Hate speech, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and other inflammatory language is prohibited.

  1. Keep content related to wrestling.

Any content posted should at least be related to pro wrestling somehow.

  1. Spoilers.

Do not spoil events for people. If an event is going on, please keep discussion contained to the/a discussion thread for 24h after the event. Do not post spoilers in titles during this period.

  1. Vague/Editorialized Title.

Please keep the titles of any articles you post clear, understandable, and indicative of what the article states within. It's ok to alter the title if the original is clickbait and confusing, or contains a spoiler like a debut that just occurred that day, but do not add your own thoughts to it.

  1. Sexualized Content/"Plot".

Please do not post any pornographic, 'creep shot', or similar adult-related material to the community (regardless of connection to wrestling). Wrestling content that involves sexualized content (in storylines/matches/promos) is fine, as well as photo's wrestlers post to their social media.

  1. Banned Source(s).

Due not necessarily to the content of their reporting, but to their harassing and doxxing of users, the following news sources, journalists, and content creators are not permitted to be posted on /m/SquaredCircle in any context - including direct links, articles, social media, and reports that cite only those sources:

  • WrestleVotes
  • RingSideNews
  • Brad Shepard
  • Billi Bhatti and "The Dirty Sheets"
  • Any post or article citing one of the above as a primary source.

And as always should anything occur in the future to warrant new rules, or reviving an old one (like low effort text posts should we ever get popular enough for it to be a problem) we can re-instate those at that times. Either way, I await all your thoughts!

kralk,

Does the ban on sexual content have an exemption for Sonny Kiss?

GeekFTW, (edited )
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I'll reword it a bit, but the intent of it is: Keep content you would expect to see on WrestleWithThePlot/WrestleWithTheJoshis/WrestleFap off the community.

Conversation regarding Sonny and their sexuality (kept civil)? No problems at all!

Photo's and video of stuff Sonny does in the ring which could be deemed 'sexy'? A-ok! It's a part of a wrestling match and 'sex' has been used for decades (though do mark things nsfw if applicable.)

Sonny decides to open an OF and posts nude spread-cheek photosets? Cool, but this isn't the community for it.

People at shows take creep shots of Sonny's magnificent arse when bent over getting in or out of the ring? Great view, but save it for the camera roll and not the community!


(Not that you're asking me but) If anyone does want a place for that kind of content, I am willing to make another magazine for it (our own WWTP/WP as it were) but that is up to the community. I'm not starting a porn community just for shits 'n grins lol.

Edit: Haven't forgotten, thinking on the wording to be clear.

Edit 2: Have gone back and forth 4-5x on 4-5 wordings cause it sounds awkward lol. This is what I've landed on to try and be inclusive to a few scenarios. How does this sound to everyone:

  1. Sexualized Content/"Plot".

Please do not post any pornographic, 'creep shot', or similar adult-related material to the community (regardless of connection to wrestling). Wrestling content that involves sexualized content (in storylines/matches/promos) is fine, as well as photo's wrestlers post to their social media.

kessleragain,

Looks good! I was looking for the no baiting bit, but I think most reasonable people would lump that into the first rule with being civil and all.

Thanks for all you’re doing!

GeekFTW,
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Yeah should we ever need to make a separate 'f off trolls' rule we def can but like you said, the spirit of it is in the civility.

Neon_Carnivore,
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Only change I would like to see is keeping the "24 hours" portion of the spoiler rule.

GeekFTW,
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Edited to reflect correctly!

TellumSiege,
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Yep. Good catch.

TellumSiege,
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I like 'em. A lot more concise than the novel we used to have lol. And if we run into any issues we can always make changes in the future.

GeekFTW,
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I dont think Federation has worked today. Our traffic has been low all day long, and when I check the mag on a lemmy alt, the last thread posted was 'Brandon Cutler: I am being told that the Young Bucks will be taking some time away from wrestling. People close to Matt and Nick’s camp are asking for privacy during this time.'

Gonna repost this rule thread tomorrow to be sure.

TellumSiege,
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I noticed you can't upvote/boost threads right now, too. Same thing happened yesterday.

GeekFTW,
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Yeah I had tons of those errors yesterday. Well, guess we reset and try again tomorrow lawl

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