The Rules

By joining laserdisc.party, you agree to abide by our Code of Conduct. Spoiler alert: it's basically the same as the one over at toot.cafe, including their instance banlist (shout out to Nolan), supplimented by Dzuk's exhaustively-compiled banlist (shout out to Dzuk). We have a few little LP-specific additions, but overall, the short of it is this; don't be an asshole, use content warnings liberally (this includes spoilers, gore, sex, nudity, etc, but also workaday stuff like politics, mental health, and multi-toot posts), and for the love of God, be kind. If you can't do that, we'll have no choice but to bust out the banhammer. And if you think asking you to put sensitive content behind a CW is encroaching on your free speech, well, tough shit. Also, and I say this emphatically, if you're a Nazi, a bigot or otherwise a hate-peddler? Take a hike. We don't need or want you here.

We also invite users of l.p to consider the user experience of everyone else here. It's not just a matter of etiquette, really. It's a matter of being just a decent person. It costs nuthin' to make stuff easier and more pleasant for others, so yes, CW liberally, add descriptions to images, camel-case hashtags with more than one word in 'em.

We want laserdisc.party to be a place for movie people, writers included. But if your account is all news aggregation and links to your website, I'm afraid you'll have to pitch your tent somewhere else. Plugging your stuff is cool, but it can't be all you do.

Again, laserdisc.party is a place for movie people. You can toot about anything (within the rules, natch), but we'd like this place to be a "movie-flavoured general instance," if you will.

If you have any questions problems (harassment troubles, clarifications, movie recs) get a hold of Derek. He'll help you out.

More Specific Rules, via mastodon.social

The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of laserdisc.party; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:

1. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
   • Excessive advertising
   • Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
   • Untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
   • Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions
2. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
   • Racism or advocation of racism
   • Sexism or advocation of sexism
   • Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
   • Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
3. The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:
   • Sexual depictions of children
   • Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
   • Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
4. Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
   • Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
   • Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called doxing or dropping dox) may be considered harassment.
   • Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called brigading or dogpiling) may be considered harassment.