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I'd personally prefer a relatively informal place to be in, thank you very muchOf course, in my view it would still have to require round-the-clock
monitoring by mods/admins in order to make sure that those rules aren't
breached [...] but I suppose that this could work.

Uhm...  I don't quite know where to start with that.
It is just information on a page -- it's not like any harm comes from these things sitting around a day or a week.  Things can be reverted easily enough too.  But part of this project is attempt to get away from the rules culture at TVT.  I'm trying to make a bazaar, not a cathedral here.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, read at least the introduction of The Cathedral and the Bazaar -- and the whole thing if you're at all interested in software development.  It's very good.
My view of what we want is "be informal and informative".  I realize these seem like diametric propositions, but the true way is in the dialectic.  I just want to find the sweet spot between Stop Having Fun Guys and Tragedy of the Commons.  I think that's somewhere left of TVT's 5P and off to the right of Linus Torvalds' management by perkele.

--Put in some Terms of Service whose reading should be mandatory
for all users.  The TOS must make it clear that, although we do not
intend to enforce censorship on a level similar to what TVT is currently
doing, we also have certain standards that, although being relatibely
loose, should still be followed in order to keep the administration from
cracking down like they did over on TVT.

There will be solid rules -- you'll agree to a short, non-legalese terms
of service on signup.  I have a draft set of rules for moderators which
is actually longer, because it turns out that those in authority need
limits more than the proles ...er users.  But I hope to be able to be
able to involve the users in any discussions on rules, because it's
ultimately their site.  Heck, the users should even be able to replace
their administrators.

--Have a mod team that is good at recognizing whether or not certain
entries, in any article, violate the TOS; such a team could be useful in
settling potential edit wars and the like.

--Personally, I feel that the "No Lewdness, No Prudishness" stance
currently taken by TVT is a good move, but the execution as it currently
stands leaves quite a lot to be desired.  At the very least, we should
try to find ways to better execute a similar stance.

Correctly-enforced written rules are better than unwritten, arbitrarily-enforced rules.  I think I got it.  I agree with the No Lewdness/No Prudishness policy -- though I hate the name.

I firmly
believe that with some well-done conversations we could hammer out a way
for ATT to become a viable competitor, instead of becoming a cesspit
that even TVT would mock.

I firmly believe that we shouldn't judge our self-worth based on others.  Goons mock people.  It's what they do.  TVT has a very strong group of yes-men who will mock us no matter what we do.  But yes, I like compromise.  After all, I'm a Lutheran.  All I did was post some theses on a wiki page, and somehow I was excommunicated from TVT.  So now I'm leading a revolution, setting up a new site that will become the moderate alternative.
-- ∇×V