I have no horse in the race regarding spoilers since I tend to avoid news and social media completely when the time zone prevents me from watching live. I do however, have some feedback about the post-race thread, anyway.

Regardless of allowing spoilers or not, I feel naming the official sticky post race thread something like “GP X Post-Race Discussion” would be more appropriate and inviting for conversation than “Max Verstappen Wins GP X”.

I know it’s a small thing, but this season especially I don’t have that much to say about Max winning another one and it would be clearer that the thread is supposed to be used for general post race talk if it had a more open general name.

Perhaps that’s just me.

How should the community handle non English articles? Google translate? Fan translations? No translations?

On reddit, posters used to provide an English translation created by deepl.com, which is quite good.

websites that force login or have a paywall

pasting in the text, or linking to an archived version would be my preference

Non English articles

Ideally I think the original language + a DeepL style translation would be best. That way if the translation doesn’t sound right then people can still grab the original text and try a different translation service or ask a native speaker for clarification

Social Media Content

I’d prefer a screenshot to avoid login-walls, also sometimes the original content gets deleted so this preserves it. a link to the original in the post body or a comment would be nice though in the event people want to browse to it and favorite/share it, etc.

Is there a way to hide the results in a spoiler blur type thing (like nsfw) or is that more constructed through Memmy, voyager and other apps.

More than once I’ve accidentally seen the results on here before I’ve seen the race.

It’s made me consider unsubbing which I’d prefer not to do but I will if the spoilers keep happening.

From what I’ve seen, paywalled articles are linked in the post and a transcript is provided in the comments.

Social media I prefer a screenshot and text provided accompanied with the url.

Thanks for the work you guys are putting in!

I don’t care about spoilers and think that spending effort policing that is wasted. People who don’t want spoilers simply need to avoid social media. I dislike titles such as “Spa winner says it was harder than it looks” Just say it’s Verstappen in the title, it’s more interesting and easier to determine if you want to actually read the post or participate in its’ discussion.

Concerning your questions:

• I personally dislike paywalled articled but there is good content behind those articles and it’s only fair to also give attention to those sites because otherwise only clickbait will be left. Posting the full content sounds like a long term problem with copyright. A short summary to get a discussion going sounds plenty good.

• I’m fine with non English links, provide a title tranlsation and I’ll see if want to read it and find a translation if it’s a language I don’t speak. (Speaking Dutch in the Verstappen era is rather fun ofcourse)

• Personally I would prefer an image of the social meda post as the main thing, with perhaps a link to the source below it. Not the other way around. But as long as an image is supplied so I don’t need to go to that social media thing I’m happy.

I don’t contribute much as I’m a newer fan still building my knowledge but I love that this place is here.

My thoughts on your questions; copy the article contents, whatever translation but mention the method, screenshots of social media.

Should social media content be linked to, or screenshotted, or both?

I would say either both or screenshotted + text transcription for visually impaired lemmings.

Many people don’t have accounts on instagram, twitter, facebook, and don’t want to sign up to read a single comment.

The text transcription would help. Another solution would be linking to alternative front-ends like Nitter for Twitter X but they could end up broken by an update or abandoned like Bibliogram.

For those of use that can’t follow every practice and qualifying session, having access to results immediately is better than trawling the web to see what happened.

Yeah, when I’m busy on a race week-ends I usually unfollow every Formula 1 communities and follow them once I watched the race, just like I did on Reddit.

Would agree with others that it’s more useful to have the text of articles pasted either in the post body or the comments along with the link and that social media type posts should include a screenshot with an accompanying link.

Also will the posting of short highlight clips be allowed? I always found the streamable links useful on the old site.

Thanks. As an always replay in the evening guy I’m glad you’re allowing spoilers. If you don’t want to know the news, don’t follow news!

The other instance has a rule regarding piracy, will this instance follow suit or do something different?

Thanks mod team - really good to see an engaged and thoughtful team at work building our community.

Pay wall - I think this is tricky as, by avoiding paywalls, the original author is not getting the fruits of their work, however in the interests of free information then maybe a summary would be the best balance? - Maybe using a large language model to summarise and then in the comments the user could post ‘highlights’ they think are important?

Non English articles - I think until we are a bigger community sharing a Google translate version would be the best solution, but maybe with the proviso that any native speakers or people who are confident in that language are encouraged to comment on any inaccuracies in the text or clarifications.

Social media - this is a tricky one as, again, I think it’s important for the original author to see some engagement as a result of their (e.g.) photo. Including the original poster and location in the title and a link to the source in the comments seems like it would be a good middle ground.

Spoilers are allowed and even live replays would be amazing like we used to have back in the day on reddit, you could tag guys and get replays in like 5mins. Stay off social if you don’t want to catch live news.

Paywall articles not allowed… unless content is posted as a comment by OP.

International articles allowed, preferably with translation.

Thanks mods/lemmings leaders!

Spoilers being allowed is a dumb and bad rule. It takes zero effort to not have spoilers in titles and it has a measurable harmful impact on users. I’m not going to be joining and blocking an instance every weekend just because I have to watch a race a few hours later than most people usually.