Alex Chen

Just shipped our new community guidelines — would love your feedback

After six weeks of working with the moderator team, we've rewritten the community guidelines from scratch. The goal: less legalese, more clarity. We trimmed 4,300 words down to 1,100. The new structure is three sections: how we talk to each other, how we share work, and what to do when something goes wrong. Each section is one screen on a phone. I think most of you will read it in under three minutes. A few hard calls we made: we kept the no-self-promotion rule but loosened it on Fridays, where anything goes. We removed the prior ban on link drops as long as the link is the post — no "check this out" with no context. And we made reporting easier by adding a one-tap flag on every post and comment. Read the draft below and drop comments where it's confusing, where you'd push back, or where you think we're missing something. If we make changes based on your note, you'll be tagged in the changelog.