Maidsafe the company is paying for this forum and “the community” is running it. That doesn’t mean that mods were chosen by all. We decided not to have elections for moderators because we as mods need to work with the new people and most of the time active members show themselves as willing to help out. Not that different from your local tennisclub. We also had conversations about what should be on the frontpage and what not. As it turned out, most users didn’t like discussion about politics etc. on the frontpage. So we created “Off-topic” where people can talk whatever they want. Next to that we have META. Not on the frontpage as well. Here we can discuss whatever we want about the forum, the mods etc. On the frontpage we try to keep topics clean and ask people to reply on-topic. In “Off-topic” and “META” there’s more freedom. We had some debates about this.
“On topic” citations should stop.
Let the Users decide if something is off topic not the mods!
Proposal: Simplify Moderation, Accept it or Vote on it.
Request for consistent moderation towards reasoned arguments.
Point taken, next time we might just let it stay and move it when we see the right category (most of the time that’s quite clear, this time it wasn’t). Again, welcome to the forum. You are free to post whatever in “Off-topic”. The rest which is about Safenet/Maidsafe or other cryptoprojects is welcome in the other categories and shows up on the frontpage. And when it concerns this forum or moderation, META here is the place to be.