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What are you looking for from your Melbourne community?
(aussie.zone)
This community is a place created for the people of Melbourne and Victoria. We are a positive, welcoming and inclusive community. We might not agree about everything, but we always strive to stay civil and respectful.
The focus of our discussions is based around things that effect Victoria, but we are also free to discuss our local perspective on wider issues. Or head to the regular Daily Random Discussion thread to talk about anything.
Ongoing discussions, FAQs & Resources (still under construction)
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Ummm... Be excellent to each other?
That pretty much sums up what I think the overarching rule here should be. If we adopt that as the complete community guidelines it would also allow me to remove posts with the comment "your comment was totally bogus, dude" which would be sort of fun too.
I've been doing some reading about how to develop guidelines for a forum, and definitely prefer the "values-based" approach over "rules-based". Which is basically having things like "be helpful and relevant" and tends to be more positive.
The Aussie.zone itself does have rules to be respectful, no bigotry, and "don't be a dick", so we have a good start there already.
+1 for the values based approach. Rules based tends to end in "its not explicitly spelt out in the rules! therefore I'm not breaking the rules!" arguments.
"Be excellent to each other" is a good partner to "don't be a dick".
I'm cool with this, all I really care about is that noone is being aggressive or vindictive.
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