MOD POST: Sidebar updated 7/22/23 - Please read community guidelines and submission rules carefully

Hello @politics!

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Thank you for your patience with us as we compiled users' suggestions and coordinated between ourselves about verbiage to create our sidebar. We captured nearly everyone's suggestion, but we also had to compare notes about our own philosophies on moderation.

I have updated the sidebar for the magazine, and we officially have Community Guidelines and Submission Rules that were co-created between early members of this magazine and the Mod Team!

I hope that everyone who participates in our magazine sees themselves as being on the front line of moderation. If you see something that runs afoul of our rules, please use the report button. We have to rely on you to use the report button because:

I've started compiling some early data from the Way Back Machine as well as the statistics panel available to mods on kbin to look at the recent growth of our magazine. Our subscribers have almost doubled (delta +3255) since June 18, which was about a week after the first wave of the reddit migration to the Fediverse. Note that I am not able to view subscribers from other instances; this represents only the users on kbin.social!

The number of link submissions here has jumped from 86 total submissions on June 18 to 523 total submissions as of this posting. Looking at the federated stats for activity in this magazine, users have submitted between 10-25 articles a day nearly every day since we established our preliminary community guidelines a week ago. Comments/replies created in the magazine each day since the preliminary guidelines were posted have trended upward from 44 (7/15) to 231 (7/21). Again, this is activity per day.

I interpret this as an initial sign that we're creating a space where reasonable people can engage one another (a success, to be sure). But as I hope is evident, the activity here is already outpacing the ability for the Mods to be all up involved in every single conversation that may be unfolding here - let alone simultaneously occurring interactions. We also are all just volunteering, so none of us are planning to turn this into a job.

So please be part of the mod team in a significant way by reporting people who are violating our side bar rules. In short, if you put the trash in the bin, we will roll the bin out to the curb.

Thanks for being a part of our magazine!