Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular Mastodon Instances | Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
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  • Buttermilk@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Interesting work, and an absolute fediverse way to look at a problem lol.

    Also love the rule they pointed out that instance had of, don’t do things that would make us write new rules.

    I do wonder what insights can be drawn, from a skim it seems more about understanding how rules connect to each other, rather than build a broad rule base.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      1·
      9 months ago

      don’t do things that would make us write new rules.

      This is basically a variant of the “don’t try to game the rules / we will not make the rules over-specific” that is also expressed by several Lemmy instances.

      I think this interpretation makes sense, as someone who fails to understand this is likely not going to be a good-faith actor, although edge-cases of people with very bad social skills do exist.