There needs to be actual content rules. TIL worked best when the mods actually adhered to those content rules. Otherwise you just have people posting all kinds of nonsense. Quality is better than quantity
You’re gatekeeping how/what people learn?
oof.
@MikeOToxin@lemmy.world no? Magazines should have standards for their posts so that a community can be formed and grow around those principles. The principle of ‘just post whatever you want’ doesn’t encourage much beyond post anything. The only real restrictions on posting in the rules are: no baiting, promoting agendas or self-promotion.
There is nothing there on how you present what it is you’ve learned beyond ‘start it with TIL’. There isn’t even a hard requirement that you link to the source, which makes no sense.
Requiring users to actually link to a reliable source to back up what it is they’ve learned, and to present the knowledge in an objective and readable manner should be a bare minimum.
Any specific examples?
It’s amazing how many folks want no content. This place already is a graveyard.
@IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world content dumping isn’t an improvement.
!til@lemmy.ca is more active
1 post in the last 6 hours. This place is empty.
There is at least a post daily:
The community we are currently in had a 4 days gap earlier this week:
Also, feel free to post if the lack of content bothers you
Are you trying to prove your own point?
Qaulity is better than … trying to post the whole article as a headline.
this is what happens when lemmy tries to handle microblog content not specifically tailored to it’s exact quirks
That would require active mods, most of them haven’t been active anywhere on Lemmy for months
!til@lemmy.ca is more active
@crossmr@kbin.run Is this in regards to my thread about Roko’s Basilisk? I checked the sidebar before posting, and didn’t see anything that suggests it was a bad fit for this community.
@Chozo@fedia.io Not just yours. The most recent is just little more beyond ‘TIL X exists’ a couple before yours is ‘TIL X exists, well sort of’ so it’s not even that vague. There are in fact several like that in recent posts. Some are opinions are just vagueness, or nonsense.
As downhill as TIL on reddit has gone, the rules there are a good foundation but do require active moderators to remove the stuff that doesn’t belong.
@crossmr@kbin.run I mean, what else would you expect people to post? Any new thing you learn is something you’re discovering the existence of for the first time.
What sort of posts would you recommend? “TIL how to change a tire” with a link to a tutorial video? Not being sarcastic, genuinely asking, because I feel like what you’re suggesting would exclude almost anything from being posted, unless I’m misunderstanding you (which I probably am).
E: I just took a look at some of the other recent posts, and I see what you mean. There’s a lot of low-effort threads that aren’t really doing much to encourage discussion.
@Chozo@fedia.io if your post is ‘TIL A star system exists’ and you can’t really tell us an interesting fact or piece of information about it, I’d say… don’t write something to be honest or if you really want to write about that thing, try to find something interesting about it to actually submit. TIL on Reddit also has a rule about titles standing on their own. Yes you can expand on topics inside the submission, but people should get something simply from reading your title. A lot of those titles don’t really give you anything at all.