Update 1: I edited the 📽️ Credit Where Credit is Due rule to be more clear about attributions, watermarks, and cropping of comics. Also I fixed some spelling mistakes.
Update 2: I edited the 🧬 Keep it Real rule for clarity. Keep it coming!
Good day/evening folks!
Note: Please read until the end; there is a lot here, so if you want to skip straight to business you can search for “Call to Action” and “New Rules” to get right to it. I won’t be terribly offended. 🥹
Last night (2026-04-08 America/New_York time) I was approached and asked to moderate this community. It seems our esteemed @lawrence@lemmy.world has found themselves otherwise occupied and unable to commit time necessary to maintaining the community. Whatever their reasons, we thank them for their service and wish them well in whatever they are doing now.
My name is @dohpaz42@lemmy.world. You may call me dohpaz42, dohpaz, doh!, jerkface (with love!), or whatever; just don’t call me late for dinner. I have been a Lemmy user since July 2023, and it’s been a wild ride. Love me or hate me, know that I took this post with the intention to be a fair and impartial mod. I do understand that I may will make mistakes, but I promise that if you come at me respectfully, I will listen. I may not agree with you, but I will listen. I only ask that you do the same for me and my (eventual) team.
A little about moi:
- I am a divorced father of two young boys
- I am a web developer who dabbles in devops
- I am not an arch user (sorry, not sorry 😏)
- I enjoy hobbies like: 3d-printing, household DIY, video games, woodworking
- I like to watch Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror (Stargate SG-1, Supernatural, Star Trek (TNG, DS9, etc), Night/Dawn/Day of the Living Dead, Paranormal Activity, etc)
- Cooking (Send me gluten-free recipes!)
Call to Action
If you are interested in helping to moderate this community, please let me know by DM. I will evaluate each request on the merits of the person making the request. This will mostly involve a user’s post/comment history and modlog history.
Note: Having a modlog history does not automatically exclude you from being a moderator, but I do want to make sure that whomever helps helms this community can do so in a respectful and positive manner. Mods will be held to a higher standard than regular users.
I also have a modlog history. Some of it was (in my opinion) unwarranted, and some of it (upon reflection) was very much warranted. I believe in second (and possibly third) chances. I’ve been there too, and I’ve still been given this opportunity. So to honor that opportunity, I am willing to give (almost) anybody a chance.
New Rules
I have decided to start out with a rewrite of the rules. Nothing dramatic, but I feel there are a couple of things that can be refined and improved upon. Before I make it official and update the sidebar, I am open to your feedback first (see below). Once the feedback is given, and any revisions made, I will post the new rules to the sidebar. I will accept feedback (comments in this post) until Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 3PM EDT (19:00 UTC).
Note: If you moderate a similar community, and wish to be linked in our sidebar, please leave a comment and I would be happy to add it to the list.
And without further ado, here are the new rules:
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
Rules
😇 Be Nice!
Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
👶 Keep it at PG/PEGI 7
Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as family friendly. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
🧬 Keep it Real
Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
📽️ Credit Where Credit is Due
Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
📋 Post Formatting
Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author’s website. Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title. When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
✅ Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
📬 Post Frequency/SPAM
Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 🖐) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author’s comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 🖐) will be removed. Repeat offenders will be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
🏴☠️ Internationalization (i18n)
Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
Sí, por favor [Spanish/Español]
🍿 Moderation
We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final. You are welcome to complain to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com or other related site. But please reach out to us first, and give us an opportunity to earn a post to YPTB. 🙃
With that out of the way, if you are going to report posts and/or comments, please do so by quoting which rule is being broken, and a brief description of why you feel it broke the rules; pretend that the moderation team has no clue as to what you’re talking about and give a brief explanation.
Web of Links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: “I use Arch btw”
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don’t say!)
Footnotes
Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
PG - Generally, violence is mild in nature. May include pushing and shoving, fist fights or brawls. Violence may be cartoonish, comedic or slapstick, or fantasy-like. If weapons are used, they are usually unrealistic (i.e. laser guns, glowing swords, magical powers etc.). If guns are present, they are used infrequently and, generally, bullet impacts to characters will not be observed. Usually, there are no real details of lasting harm observed (i.e. no blood, visible wounds, characters dying onscreen). ↩︎
PEGI 7 - Content with scenes or sounds that can possibly be frightening to younger children should fall in this category. Very mild forms of violence (implied, non-detailed, or non-realistic violence) are acceptable for a PEGI 7 rating. ↩︎
In response to those who have mentioned the PG/PEGI 7 rule, how does this work for a compromise?
Let’s roll with it and then pull back if we need to. Any way to have a vote on or have visibility into some of the preliminary content removals to massage the right threshold for things like violence?
No gore or pornography is understandable but the “no violence” thing seems a bit too much.
“Violence” is such a vague term and, considering storytelling, violence is a main driver of conflict in many stories. Fights break out and being able to tell these stories of strife and conflict is something we should be encouraging, not limiting.
Graphic violence is banned not violence in general
this seems as a fair rule ☺️
Just an fyi that would exclude Oglaf since I would say it’s very hard to say it’s just lewd and not full on porn for a lot of it.
I’d say that oglaf is nudity, not porn - after all its not trying to be for masturbation and gratification 🤷
I think my only issue is that comedy is a form of content that pushes the boundaries. I know my personal form of comedy would have most things I enjoy broadly marked NSFW and its kind of hard to know what the future line in this community will be for graphic content.
That’s reasonable.