About the new "guidelines"

[anon40790172]

@Team_2E16

Actually I think his proposal (at least the one I am supporting) was to open a topic, on the front page, to allow interested members of the community to engage in a discussion about what guidelines we should have.

That was the second proposal. Here’s the first:

@Jabba

I think there might be a way to satisfy all parties here though… or most at least.

Instead of a long list of rules why not have one simple rule that gives the mods the freedom to make all of our lives easier and better… “Do no harm” and make them accountable to it too? If you do something that harms the forum, the quality of it or our experience then there is potential to be moderated.

So he did propose to remove the guidelines and that’s fine. I don’t support the idea and I made critical comments to it.

@Melvin

I haven’t responded to this anymore here but it was about the entire mod team and it has been both ‘you do sound fascist’ and ‘you’re basically nazi’s’.

That’s why I quit interaction. If you can’t have a normal conversation with normal comments it’s over.

@Team_2E16

By the way, thank you for continuing to engage on this topic, I and others very much appreciate that.

Thank you for being in this discussion as well. This is our forum and I’m always open to new ideas (even when I make critical notes about them ;-)). This is your forum as much it’s mine. We’ll see a lot of new people and a lot of changes coming to this place in the coming years. We have to figure out what to do.

@Melvin

They were there to discuss (input is what you want right?) and nobody did that.

I couldn’t agree more Just jump in meta, open a topic with a title like: Discuss guideline: not allowed to talk politics on the frontpage. And see what people say about it. And people say there’s nobody reading meta, well look at this topic in off-topic. Not that many people around there but 7 people liked the post. Her we have 8 likes in another off-topic. And when I look at this topic, we have 539 views (way more than the 2 examples) but nobody seems to get these amount of likes. A user posts some PM’s and get’s 5 likes and a mod replies and also get’s 5 likes. Not to close down any discussion but I keep asking where everybody is. look at the Forum Update. We introduced a new set of rules, 2 new mods and get 20 likes for it. The critical replies doesn’t get that much. Even while they were in plain sight as well. Same here, we added a new mod and everybody agreed. I only spot positive comments (on the frontpage for days).