Is there a list somewhere? Are the rules different per instance?? I see:

Comment removed:

Rule 1.

I see this all the time, but I don’t know what rule 1 is. (Not me by the way, though I’ve had a few comments removed here and there)

Is there somewhere I can see where these rules are?

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    5 months ago

    It’s a bit messy but the rule in question might be from

    • the user’s instance
    • the community’s instance
    • the community itself

    Typically when mods ban you based on violations of some global rule they’ll highlight it, e.g. “global rule 1”. And it’s good form to include the short description of the rule being violated as the reason for the ban (e.g. instead of “rule 1”, saying “rule 1 - uncivil behaviour”).

    Without further clarification, however, it’s usually the community rules. Otherwise you’ll likely get banned from your account (if you violated the global rules of your instance) or from the instance where the comm is.

    In the desktop, to see the community rules you check the side panel:

    And for the instance you see them on the main page of the instance:

    Props for reading the mod logs, by the way. And if you want to know who did what, this site shows exactly which mod or admin is behind which moderative action.