UPDATE: What it seems like the general opinion in response to this post is that we allow Reddit content to be posted here but it must be complete and not require a jump to Reddit to get the full story. I propose allowing Reddit posts but not requiring attribution, and if you want to link to the original, do it in a comment for those that want it but not in the post body. If that is objectionable, we can work on the rule more. I am going to make this change today but it’s not immutable if you guys don’t like the outcome. I’ll leave this post pinned for a couple more days to facilitate any further discussion.
Hey guys, Rule 8 of this community calls out that it is okay to repost from Reddit (this rule preexisted my tenure here), but it seems to be pissing a lot of you off (and I get it too). Since it’s in the rules right now I can’t remove the posts so I am going to leave this post up for a few days to find out if you guys want to change rule 8 to prohibit reposting from Reddit. Personally I hate Reddit, but at the end of the day this community belongs to all of us. Let me know what you want to do and we’ll go with the community consensus.
So I came here to get away from reddit and I do hate posts from reddit. All the same what I really hate is pictures and links with no context. A lot of reddit posts I have seen are screenshots with no context and I find those real annoying. Recently someon had a post where they wrote a lot and retold the story in their own words and put links for reference. That does not bother me at all. Honeslty its basically how I would like to see things here. Real posts from people who say what they think if they are introducing something like a picture or link. So I guess for me its a bit more nuanced. All the same im more anti reddit than ok with good versions of it. Heck I block the crazy linkedin communities and such because I don’t want to see X or linkedin or facebook for that matter. slashdot would be fine with me but that is generally all text.