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Q&A Let's improve how we manage proposals for new communities

This is a step in the right direction, but I think the new system will still have a few problems: Mixing all the question for all the proposals together in a single category will be quite off-putt...

posted 10mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2023-05-25T12:01:51Z (10 months ago)
This is a step in the right direction, but I think the new system will still have a few problems:<ol>

<li>Mixing all the question for all the proposals together in a single category will be quite off-putting to asking questions.  If someone is interested in underwater basket weaving, all the questions about elvish fantasy worlds will get in the way.  Put another way, there will always be an exceptionally high drivel level for everyone.

A separate category for the questions of each site might fix this.

<li>I'm not so sure about the wiki site definition.  Who gets to decide what goes into the official description?  There will be inevitable disagreements about what the site content should be.  If you have a suggestion, you just edit it into the proposal?  What about the next person that disagrees?  Do they remove your edit and add their own?

This process doesn't make sense.  You end up with the last-written ideas, not a consensus.

Each idea that deviates from the proposal as stated in the "question" should be in a separate "answer" so that it can be independently voted on.  Eventually as a consensus emerges the site description can be edited.  The terms "question" and "answer" don't really apply.  They are more "site definition" and "proposed modification".  However, note that other than the names, exactly the same software mechanisms apply.

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