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On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 05:15:30AM +0200, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: |
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>> Please respond to this message with agenda items. Do not hesitate to |
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>> repeat your agenda item here with a pointer if you previously |
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>> suggested one (since the last meeting). |
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>I would like to propose the council consider shutting down the "Off the Wall" |
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>(OTW) forum on forums.gentoo.org permanently and without replacement. |
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>Rationale: |
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>* provides zero value to the distribution |
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>* large parts of the content are toxic and not something I (and others) wish |
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> Gentoo to be associated with |
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>* it caters to a set of users somewhat distinct from the rest of the forums |
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> (e.g., >5000 posts in OTW, <100 elsewhere) |
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>* forum moderators have made clear they are not going to fulfill their roles |
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> (e.g., regarding the code of conduct) in OTW, following a similar discussion |
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> one year ago |
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>This leaves us with two options: |
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>1) shut down OTW |
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>or |
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>2) replace or supplement forum moderators with people willing to fulfill the |
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> moderator role in OTW |
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I propose a third and fourth option here: Make it a privileged area, or split |
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off to a Religion & Politics forum. |
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Some other communities have made a dedicated "Religion & Politics" area despite |
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the community having no connection to religion and politics otherwise. Users who |
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wish to access the area would need to submit a request via PM to gain access. As |
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part of the request, the user acknowledges that the forum will be relatively |
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free from moderation. Only requests for threats of injury will be moderated. |
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Basically, words are allowed, but stick and stones aren't. |
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Additionally, it makes the forum private so the topics therein won't come up in |
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searches, but will still be publicly available. This should minimize non-Gentoo |
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user participation. |
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>I dont see 2) happen (for the simple reasons |
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>* that it will be difficult to find someone to do the work |
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>* and that noone has volunteered to do it over the past year |
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>), so 1) it is. |
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>Cheers, Andreas |
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>-- |
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>Andreas K. Hüttel |
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>dilfridge@g.o |
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>Gentoo Linux developer |
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>(council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) |
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