Hey Reddthat mods,

Is there a mechanism to report entire communities? I found one that appears to be

trigger warning

pro-pedophilia

but it's the lone mod doing the posting, so sending a report will likely be ignored.

It's a community on this instance.

Relevant post.

https://reddthat.com/post/9070084

Edit: formatting

Sorry to be that guy, but looks like the alternate UIs are offline again. And btw, on status.reddthat it says old.reddthat (which I use) has been offline over a month, which is not correct :-)

I want to create a few communities, but two of them are bot communities with a high volume of posts, and I would interact with them only a couple of times a day. I would like to know what the rules are regarding bots and specifically bot communities. I made these communities on lemm.ee, but they changed the rules to forbid this kind of communities later, so I'm asking first this time. The main reason the bot communities were forbidden in lemm.ee was that they caused too much noise on the local feed, and people complained about it.

Here are the communities I'm planning to create:

• Polls: A community for polls. I'm especially interested in creating the polls community here since it solves the problem of people downvoting answers when in polls you usually can't downvote. Link to c/polls@lemmy.ml
• ShareGPT: To share AI output I find interesting. Link to c/sharegpt@lemmy.fmhy.ml
• Lemmy Issues: For moving issue discussion to Lemmy. Mainly a bot community. Link to c/issue_tracker@lemm.ee
• Zeitgeist Zone: To post my YouTube feed and anything I want. Mostly a bot account. Link to c/youtube_feed@lemm.ee

Can anyone provide information on the rules and guidelines for bot communities on Reddthat.com? I want to ensure that I'm following the platform's policies before creating these communities. Thanks in advance!

I've mostly been using the Sync app (which shows a downvote option everywhere), so I didn't notice the lack of downvoting until I was spending a lot of time on desktop yesterday and saw there are actually no downvote buttons anywhere 😮 on Reddthat.

I've since tracked down what seems to be the Reddthat policy discussion around this issue, which also made clear that even if I downvote content from another instance through a 3rd-party app like Sync, because I'm doing it from an account on Reddthat (which has downvoting disabled), my downvote doesn't go through!

This sucks. 🙁 Downvoting is an essential tool for users to help keep their communities on-topic and discourage bad behavior. It lets people take action against ignorance or bigotry without feeding the trolls; minimize people trying to derail discussions or be obnoxious in the comments; and prevent memes, sensationalism, and low-effort posts from flooding communities meant for thoughtful discussion.

It's unfortunate that lemmy doesn't support disabling downvotes just within specific communities yet, so this wouldn't have to be such an all-or-nothing policy, but as-is this means making Reddthat my home instance has restricted my options and given me less of a voice everywhere within the lemmyverse.

@ticoombs@reddthat.com, is there any chance this policy will be reconsidered? So many comments in the previous discussion seemed to agree that downvotes are a valuable and desired feature. It doesn't seem like that feedback has resulted in any kind of policy change yet though. Was a specific decision made after that discussion to keep voting disabled, or has it just been stuck in a wait-and-see state? Would it be possible to change this?