***Important Annoucement About Upcoming Guidelines for The Old Web***

I just got done replying to a comment in another post about a website that was posted twice in less than a week with only a couple days apart. Here is the reply I wrote and thought that it might be better suited to the community at large so that it gets more reach and discussion on what The Old Web as a community would like out of it and some fair guidelines as to what should be posted, addressing things like double posts, low effort content, content that may be better suited to other growing communities, etc.

Here was the reply in full:

"Yes, it was. I'm coming up with guidelines for the community to address this sort of thing since it has happened a couple of times so far. Since I don't have guidelines up yet, I've been letting it slide and letting people just have their fun participating and reminiscing. We are growing really quickly so new members may not always check to see older posts and might just be excited to post and share the thing they remember.

I have been really busy the last week IRL at work because of the snowstorms and cold weather, so I have been kinda minimal as to my engagement on Digg and the community.

I have also been observing to see what kind of issues are arising and thinking about those that might arise with a rapidly growing community at scale and coming up with basic guidelines based around that as to minimize impact to community culture. I'm also seeing how the community is kind of evolving and what members want from The Old Web as it's not all about me or what I necessarily want. This is place for everyone to have a voice. I'm not here to squash fun. I want people to remember fondly and share, but I do need to come up with some basic guidelines as to not clutter the community feed with double posts or posts that may be better suited to other growing communities who may also need some love.

The Old Web is a broad concept with a lot of adjacent subjects, new and old, since the Web is the Web, something about everything and everything about something with tons of history and nostalgia blasted in there, both physical and digital.

Guidelines are coming, I just want to make sure I get most of it right before laying down "The Law" so as not to alienate people. I'm not trying to be a Reddit mod here. I want to be a Digg mod, and to me that means building community while engaging and being fair. I'm new to this, so I'm learning as I go along.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful 😊"

I want people to feel comfortable posting and sharing, but we also need some basic guidelines, and I would prefer to build it with everyone.

As I said before, any thoughts or suggestions would be great. This is our community; I just founded it and facilitate it.

Here are some questions I'm asking of you as a community for some feedback:

As a community, what do you like to see in The Old Web?

What does it mean to you, and what makes you keep coming back?

How would you deal with issues that you see in post-based communities?

What other questions like these could be asked so as to come up with reasonable guidelines?

Something I have been thinking about is a timeframe between double posts. What is an acceptable amount of time before the same website or concept is posted about? It's going to happen with a community at scale, so instead of really fighting it, I would rather it be an agreed upon reasonable rule. I was thinking maybe a week or two. I think it's reasonable for people to check at least a week back before posting to see if something has already been posted.

This is the sort of thing we need to discuss as a community.