Meta category has now been taken off front page

[smacz]

Umm…this seems like a better post for:

Let the Users decide if something is off topic not the mods!

Once again the users should be able to decide if something is genuinely off topic not the mods. It is maximum hypocrisy to tell people to shut or at least interrupt them and partially silence them or lose or bury their threads. Way beyond rude. There is a programmer site for hyper focused technical stuff. And if you’re going to let the users decide, yes its a complicated process because still getting people putting out knee jerk shill responses. Threshold for off topic on user citing shoul…

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Is Discourse the Right Software for this Forum?

Continuing the discussion from Let the Users decide if something is off topic not the mods!: After reading through the linked thread, I think that we need to have a discussion about the benefits and disadvantages of using Discourse. @happybeing Basically, my understanding of the Discourse ethos is that it is very focused on building more genuine communities, to the extent that the core devs of that project are opposed to developing a mute users functionality. Now you can go read the post, but…

Instead of one about the Meta category being taken off of the front page.

I should flag it…