UPDATE: What it seems like the general opinion in response to this post is that we allow Reddit content to be posted here but it must be complete and not require a jump to Reddit to get the full story. I propose allowing Reddit posts but not requiring attribution, and if you want to link to the original, do it in a comment for those that want it but not in the post body. If that is objectionable, we can work on the rule more. I am going to make this change today but it’s not immutable if you guys don’t like the outcome. I’ll leave this post pinned for a couple more days to facilitate any further discussion.
Hey guys, Rule 8 of this community calls out that it is okay to repost from Reddit (this rule preexisted my tenure here), but it seems to be pissing a lot of you off (and I get it too). Since it’s in the rules right now I can’t remove the posts so I am going to leave this post up for a few days to find out if you guys want to change rule 8 to prohibit reposting from Reddit. Personally I hate Reddit, but at the end of the day this community belongs to all of us. Let me know what you want to do and we’ll go with the community consensus.
Personally, if it’s organic, and by that I mean not automated, and someone went to Reddit, saw the post, and then reposted it Here, I don’t have any issue with that.
I don’t use Reddit, so any mildly infuriating post that gets posted from there to here is a post that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
As long as I’m not forced to go to Reddit to interact with it, which so far out of what I’ve seen in this community I haven’t had to because it’s usually the picture and the post description lemmy side as well so I have no big issue with it
Just because Reddit is a shit site, and I don’t like it, doesn’t mean that all content on the site isn’t worth anything, and if it’s something that’s cool or entertaining, and someone wants to bring it here, I’m all for it.