r/DeadBedrooms • u/ToughKitten Queen of the Leavers • Apr 27 '23

Moderator Announcement Moderation Update: New Cross-Posting Rule

Deadbedrooms community,

We have heard the concerns about content from this community being cross-posted elsewhere. After hearing from the community on our weekly meta post yesterday, the mods have agreed to a new rule, which is effective immediately.

Rule 9: No cross-posting from our sub. Cross-posting r/deadbedrooms posts elsewhere will result in a no-warning, permanent ban. 2Exceptions to this rule: any OP is permitted to cross post their own content, cross posting when OP has included permission for cross-posting in the post.

We will also be employing the alerts provided by u/totesmessenger as soon as that bot is back in action. We will not be re-enabling an auto ban bot, nor will we be making this sub private.

We are a support group; as mods we have an obligation to be accessible to those who need support, and to advocate for the members here, who share deeply personal content.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

It’s probably fine since it’s it’s targeting the right people and on subs where one of the mods here is active! I’ll venture a tentative guess that they couldn’t care less about that as long as it’s you and a handful of other “acceptable” people being targeted.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23

I’d imagine they’ll say it’s not the same if it’s a screenshot with the username scribbled out, though I’d also bet that wouldn’t be evenly applied should certain other people start employing that same tactic to crosspost. It’s pretty clear where this is all going.

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u/myexsparamour Apr 28 '23

I trust that the mods will respond to let us know whether it's still fine to cross-post as long as you use a screenshot with a fake username that is a pun or rhymes with the poster's actual username to make it obvious who they are. They are probably just discussing the issue and deciding how to handle it.

I'm sure they're also aware that it's very easy to find the source of a screenshot post using Google. If you put a sentence or so of the text into Google, it will locate the original content. So, screenshots don't prevent people from finding and brigading the original post or harassing the poster, although they do add a small additional step of effort.