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Hello everyone,

Edit: Responses to the survey are now closed. Thank you for your feedback. I shall present the results soon.

I know, I know. It's another meta post from me!

I got some great feedback from you all regarding the race weekend post format. For Canada we shall trial one stickied post for the whole weekend. We can see how that goes and find out if it makes sense to be a little more granular.

This time I've set up a survey to give everyone a voice on what kind of content we should allow in this community.

The survey can be found here.

Any and all responses are welcome. Feel free to remain anonymous if you wish. I only really need your username if you're wanting to become a moderator. Please enter any mod experience in to the last question if so. I'm not necessarily looking for experienced mods, but it'll be great to know what experience you guys have.

I'll leave the survey up until Wednesday 14th, with a view to formalising the rules we wish to follow after the Canadian GP. I'll hopefully have mods on board prior to that as I'll likely not be able to moderate during the sessions where discussion is often at its most heated.

Thanks for your time all!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I roughly think that until we reach critical mass, we shouldn't split too much the community. Maybe later we could ban memes, but for now I don't think we have too many content. On the piracy side, I think it should be a 0 piracy policy, to avoid any troubles. There are many communities dedicated to (motorsport) piracy on Reddit and certainly soon Lemmy, let them handle this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mostly endorse this though [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) already exists, and I am fairly terrified of this community turning into a memey shitposting nonsense-fest because that's considerably easier than substantive discussion. I voted to include most types of topics here, but let's support our sister sub for memes by adding them to the sidebar and letting them have that niche.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's a fair point I can get behind :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

yeah I love formuladank, but this community would eventually be overrun if memes are allowed

I like the different communities having different intentions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I literally just finished writing the exact same thing in the survey.

I understand the need for content but having them separate feels right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like the different communities having different intentions

Yeah, with you on that. Fair play to Mikey for making us actually discuss and define our intentions though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

100%

I love formuladank and my fellow degenerates but I also appreciate the main sub/community having a slightly more serious focus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As someone who currently runs said formuladank community (hah), I am for splitting memes and serious content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is exactly what I put in the survey. If there is any ambitions to host AMA, there is no chance with piracy discussions allowed here.

Likewise, the most important thing for success here is growing the user base and engagement. We don't have enough content to justify separating memes yet. This would make sense at a later stage.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nothing to add, just wanted to say thanks for the effort you are putting in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you like making fun of F1 (or other motorsports for that matter), visit [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Heh, I also created a dank alternative because I couldn't find one

https://sh.itjust.works/c/formuladank

Not sure how I sub to yours, it doesn't come up in my search?

Edit. Found it, subbed. I think things take a while for subs to appear in search

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea it takes a while to search for communities that your instance isn't familiar yet...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I registered my account on lemmy.world. But I don't know how much popular it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1000 users was reached today I think? But you have the whole fediverse to look at. Right now you're commenting at lemmy.ml

The lemmy.world people also run one of the larger Mastodon servers so I think they should stick around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, ok. Thanks for the info. Let's see how this migration goes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice to see Formula 1 on Lemmy! As long as I get my sessions and race day threads, I'll be happy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For this weekend we will experiment with a "Race weekend" thread. This community is small, but I'm seeing it grow rapidly. It feels like unnecessary administration currently to have a thread for each session, especially as I haven't had the chance to sit down and work on bots yet.

There several different ways we can go, so I'm going to experiment with the least granular, and become more granular as the community demands it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I suggested exactly that in my response, probably should've read the comments first

I think one main thread combining live-race and post-race discussions should be good too ( plus it also makes it fun to see the juxtaposition of live race comments and those made with hindsight after its over lol)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@itsmikeyd This is new for everyone, if things don't work we pick ourselves up, see what went wrong and try and improve for next time!

Looking forward to this weekend!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Great Idea to do a survey!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it would be good to get some rules set in the side bar. I do quite like the separation that exists on Reddit between formula 1 news/discussion in the main subreddit and the memes on formuladank

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the rules will go in the sidebar as per the schedule defined in the OP with any luck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to say thanks, and hello everyone!

Regarding community guidelines, some r/formula1 rules were good ideas that ended up too rigid in actual practice (e.g. titles of posts for articles must exactly mirror the article headlines). Maybe we can retain the spirit (don’t editorialize) but have a little more flexibility?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@itsmikeyd Hyped for this f1 community.

Posting this from Mastodon. Does this work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Love the small steps we’re taking to grow this community! Thanks for the work you’re putting in!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happy to see formula 1 on Lemmy! I'm gone from Reddit so race day I'll be refreshing here madly. 😃

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's going to be weird using a different website during a race. But I am here and ready.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I am really excited, can't wait to see how the live race thread looks like here. It's been 10 years on reddit for me, it's time for a change

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now that we're free from the corporate overlords, I'm more interested in what happens /motorsportsreplays and /motorsportsstreams ... will they/can they be welcomed here?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's nothing stopping anyone setting them up. The hard part is getting the content for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lol now with the recent drama with Lemmy.World (defederating from any communities that involve piracy) I'm not so sure the utopia is quite free from corporate overlords.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A double motive post, first wanted to make sure this is fine and I dont need to sign in. Second I wanted to see how easy posting a screenshot on lemmy was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it possible to be a mod if you're not on the lemmy.ml instance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, one of our mods is on another instance already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Testing if I can post here. Sorry for the spam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, my subscribe is still pending. Can I even comment?

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