Good news!

I’ve just been added t the mod team over at !startrek@lemmy.ml and have posted a Community Update with new community guidelines that outline a more open policy on discussions that includes the ability to express criticism without fear of your comments vanishing or being capriciously banned without warning.

However, there are (as outlined in the post) some guidelines about how those discussions should go. We don’t want unhinged rants about how you hate X that just devolve into toxic threads. If you’re going to be critical, make it constructive criticism that fosters civil discussion, and keep it relevant to the post you’re commenting on. Irrelevant tangents and a lot of toxicity will be curtailed. But, otherwise, we feel it would be disingenuous and dishonest to outright ban all dissenting opinions and the discussion of when Trek sometimes fails to hit its mark.

Rules are in the sidebar, and if you have any questions or comments, you can comment on the Community Update post, reply to this comment, or contact me!

Live long and prosper! 🖖