Hello everyone.
To further improve this community collectively, I would like to hear from you as to what rule(s) you feel this community needs to better it.
Please read the other suggestions and engage them with a civil approach.
Constructive criticism is welcome. Just remember this is to better build the community and not tear it or other people down.
Rule Suggestions will be open until November 15th, at 6pm PST (16 Nov., 2am UTC). I will group similar suggestions and present the five highest suggested rules for you fine people to vote on.
Polling will begin on Nov. 16, at 6pm PST (17 Nov., 2am UTC), and close on Nov. 23, 6pm PST (24 Nov., 2am UTC)
New rule(s) will become active at 7pm PST on November 24, 2025.
If you have any suggestions, concerns, or comments for me, please feel free to comment below and add a @tehbamski@lemmy.world to them, or PM me if you desire.
Good day everyone!
I think the sub needs to protect itself from spam. Reddit was notorious for the T-shirt scammers and they’re already starting to come around here.
I dont know what the solution is, but maybe no self promotion/commerce links would be a start?
No advertising. People shouldn’t be trying to viral market their stuff under the guise of “look at this cool thing I saw”
There are 375 posts in the last two plus years in this community. Ain’t nobody marketing here.
The top post right now is literally an advert to buy a shirt.
The top post right now is this one.
Don’t be facetious, this post is pinned, you know exactly what I’m referring to, unless it’s already been removed.
This post is the only post in the last 24 hours.
Also reall viral marketing threat that guy. Two posts in this community a month apart.
I would like posts showing shirts (or potholders, hats, whatever) to be actual photos of actual shirts (or potholders, hats, whatever).
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shirtsmockups that people just whistle and pretend its an actual shirt. Yeah I’m specifically talking about that Dick Cheney piece of crapSure, it’s more fun to find them in the wild, but I’m not against hypothetical shirt designs.
Even when it’s just a meme on a tshirt template?
That’s how you make a meme-on-a-tshirt-template mill.
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Now that I think about it I guess shirt that goes hard it just a meme that goes hard on a tshirt though?It shirts that go hard, not shirt concepts that go hard 🤷
Just like anything else, a little bit can be fun, but too much ruins it for everyone.
+1 vote for no self promotion. I don’t know how we’d enforce it as a community though.
The Reddit scam always involved multiple accounts to circumvent the rules.
One account would post the shirt and a second account would invariably post a link to where they “found” a link to buy it.
Then there would be a veritable army of collaborators that wouldn’t post and just downvote anyone who called it out into oblivion.
Unfortunately the only solution I can come up with would be to ban commerce links altogether. …which sucks for authentic users.
ETA: I forgot they would sometimes run the scam with a third account that would ask where it could be bought for the link posting account to reply to.
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I’ve never had or seen a problem with the current rules. Why fix what isn’t broken?
Also this community is neither large enough nor active enough that limiting posting, which is what rules do after all, would be advantageous.
