Hey all, just a quick clarification regarding rule 9 and which crossposts we tend to allow vs remove.

We really don’t want to have a ton of posts here just complaining and arguing about how other people have chosen to landscape their property. Those type of crossposts often lead to quasi-brigading behavior and the discussion is almost never productive. The purpose of this sub is not to fight with r/lawncare; we want to lift up r/nolawns content and educate people seeking to transform their yards.

Occasionally someone will post in r/lawncare or r/landscaping and get directed here based on what they are seeking to do, and those type of crossposts are welcome and encouraged.

In general for crossposts:

  • positive transformations of r/nolawn style landscaping and/or OP seeking to implement r/nolawn style landscaping ✅
  • r/lawncare style posts crossposted here to complain ❌

  • One option would be to just turn off cross-posting. It isn't well-implemented on Reddit, since the text accompanying the image doesn't show up on the crosspost. So you get a lot of comments from people asking for context that was already included in the original. It would also address the quasi-brigading. It isn't that much more effort for someone to create a new post and copy-paste the text instead of cross-posting, and solves so many problems.

    But since I mostly just lurk in this community, there may be issues I'm not seeing with turning cross-posting off.

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    Yup we’ve considered it. Occasionally we do see people crossposting from r/lawncare or r/landscaping who get sent here after describing what they’re seeking for their yard, so I’ve been hesitant to ban them. r/landscaping especially is one which I feel like we ought to still allow since it’s so broad.

    But if turning off cross posts from certain subs is what our community wants, I have no issue with that. We’ve already blocked some spam subs and political subs.

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    Question, how can I copy paste the text? I have tried this before and gave up after like 30min.

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  • Thanks for clarifying!

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