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Update to Terms of Service + New Bylaws (Protections for users) - Lemmy.World
lemmy.worldHey all, In light of recent events concerning one of our communities (/c/vegan),
we (as a team) have spent the last week working on how to address better some
concerns that had arisen between the moderators of that community and the site
admin team. We always strive to find a balance between the free expression of
communities hosted here and protecting users from potentially harmful content.
We as a team try to stick to a general rule of respect and consideration for the
physical and mental well-being of our users when drafting new rules and revising
existing ones. Furthermore, we’ve done our best to try to codify these core
beliefs into the additions to the ToS and a new by-laws section. ## ToS
Additions That being said, we will be adding a new section to our “terms of
service” concerning misinformation. While we do try to be as exact as reasonably
able, we also understand that rules can be up to interpretation as well. This is
a living document, and users are free to respectfully disagree. We as site
admins will do our best to consider the recommendations of all users regarding
potentially revising any rules. Regarding misinformation, we’ve tried our best
to capture these main ideas, which we believe are very reasonable: - Users are
encouraged to post information they believe is true and helpful. - We recommend
users conduct thorough research using reputable scientific sources. - When in
doubt, a policy of “Do No Harm”, based on the Hippocratic Oath, is a good
compass on what is okay to post. - Health-related information should ideally be
from peer-reviewed, reproducible scientific studies. - Single studies may be
valid, but often provide inadequate sample sizes for health-related advice. -
Non-peer-reviewed studies by individuals are not considered safe for health
matters. We reserve the right to remove information that could cause imminent
physical harm to any living being. This includes topics like conversion therapy,
unhealthy diets, and dangerous medical procedures. Information that could result
in imminent physical harm to property or other living beings may also be
removed. We know some folks who are free speech absolutists may disagree with
this stance, but we need to look out for both the individuals who use this site
and for the site itself. ## By-laws Addition We’ve also added a new by-laws
section as well as a result of this incident. This new section is to better
codify the course of action that should be taken by site and community
moderators when resolving conflict on the site, and also how to deal with
dormant communities. This new section provides also provides a course of action
for resolving conflict with site admin staff, should it arise. We want both the
users and moderators here to feel like they have a voice that is heard, and
essentially a contact point that they can feel safe going to, to “talk to the
manager” type situation, more or less a new Lemmy.World HR department that we’ve
created as a result of what has happened over the last week. Please feel free to
raise any questions in this thread. We encourage everyone to please take the
time to read over these new additions detailing YOUR rights and how we hope to
better protect everyone here. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#80-misinformation
[https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#80-misinformation]
https://legal.lemmy.world/bylaws/ [https://legal.lemmy.world/bylaws/] Sincerely,
> FHF / LemmyWorld Operations Team EDIT: We will be releasing a separate post
regarding the moderation incident in the next 24-48 hours, just getting final
approval from the team.
Previous Hexbear post on this issue by @ButtBidet@hexbear.net
https://hexbear.net/post/3259169
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Re self discipline. I have faith in you, I mean I'm a human garbage fire; I am don't get-out-of-bed some days depressed and a polydrug user just to cope with life. I manage! It really does seem harder from the outset. Mostly because all it requires is for you to not do something, it's not like exercise (or even brushing your teeth :P) where you have to make yourself do a thing. You can live off pressure cooked beans and rice for a long time while you figure stuff out :) and there is a veritable army of us willing to help with whatever specific issues.
We're not Jains! haha I think it's fine to hurt someone who wants to kill someone if they wont stop trying and I don't have better options. The literal definition from the club that invented the word is:
"Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."
Nothing particularly consumerist or absolute pacifist or whatever in there. I mean some of the most based vegans go around sabotaging farms and shit. The reality is most of us are always buying things so a lot of visible veganism is seen through those small acts of defiance. This is the result of circumstance though not some inherent belief that all there is to do is not buy fur coats or whatever. All sorts of vegan movements take non consumerist forms such as research and development of alternatives (some small scale, like figuring out how to garden without manure etc and teaching others is vegan praxis), producing propaganda/investigating animal ag, rescue from and sabotage of facilities that abuse non human animals, working at sanctuaries, organising politically to further animal rights and so on.
Ah that makes sense, thanks for explaining.
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There are so many plant based treats! I highly recommend raiding asain groceries (particularly Chinese and Thai, but also Korean) if you're not a usual shopper there. So many premade things/affordable substitutes (usually not the healthiest but it's not like anyone eats animal products because they're healthy anyway) and wonderful snacks like https://msshiandmrhe.com/latiao/
I personally am a fan of this "omlette" as a quick and easy make once, fry when hangry each week https://www.copymethat.com/r/i55XAfMM2/vegan-egg-moong-dal-omelette/ you can throw whatever in it too.
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