I have brought some diversity of practice to my contributions here and have been chastised for it multiple times. I refuse to conform to the expectations and demands being foisted onto my choices and consider them inappropriate. How is this divers, equitable and inclusive? My goal in my practices…

Accepted :handshake:, also I am sorry if I did leave too much room for interpretation. Now lets move on :+1:

[image] Arthur Dorrit: Make the users who have authority to moderate in any way obvious to every user. This is already available for all (as long as the user has not hidden their public profile). A simple click on the user name by their post gives immediately their trust level and a second …

[image] dalto: Deleting content from within those topics destroys their usability and makes them useless over time. I agree with this. But I get that culling whole topics could be reasonable and even beneficial. Please don’t mangle the topics by deleting pieces within them though. Maybe movin…

This forums post are a shared community resource and we should implement policy as a community. Improving the quality of the information here needs to be done with the communities wisdom and perspectives being considered. Unilateral actions are unlikely to end up in a share community’s acceptance.

[image] Arthur Dorrit: Your individual point of view on this is different from mine. Everyone has their own unique POV on every topic. This is why input from everyone is important and no one should feel their input is not worthwhile. Only by voicing opinions and reasons can others be inform…

Nobody wants to seriously use Discourse as a documentation site (except maybe @mattdm ), and we’re not going to do that. Also, actively destroying threads of record would ruin the purpose of an asynchronous discussion site.

[image] Arthur Dorrit: Documentation in Redhat is so much better than Fedora. Remember you are comparing a paid for commercial service with a volunteer supported open source project. It used to be that you could not read the RedHat docs unless you had a RedHat contract.

[image] ngompa: Nobody wants to seriously use Discourse as a documentation site Discourse is the opposite of documentation. Pages don’t save gracefully, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to search from outside the forum, so if you don’t already know it’s here, it’s effectively invisible.

[image] Rez Zircon: there doesn’t seem to be any way to search from outside the forum While I agree this isn’t a documentation site, Discourse is highly searchable from outside the forum. Some people don’t like discourse search so they exclusively search from outside the forum.

[image] Rez Zircon: there doesn’t seem to be any way to search from outside the forum a quick google search for freedom in the fedora project gives me this topic as the first link, and the next 2 links were also from discourse. Many many other results and several more from this forum were inc…

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