Resolution:

Tldr: nothing has changed

Thankyou to everyone who has contributed to this thread over the last couple of days. In keeping with the advice offered by some our more prominent members, we will hold off on this until there has been sufficient growth and it is discussed again. However, feel free to make use of the [email protected] community if you wish and make sure you subscribe to it if you don’t use our local feed.

I will keep this post stickied for a few days, the original proposal is below for historical purposes

Proposal

At this stage in the growth of this community I think we should begin to consider moving general news content into the dedicated [email protected] community as well as focusing political content onto [email protected] and environmental content in [email protected]. And use this community mostly for opinion pieces and discussing stuff which doesn’t necessarily fit into politics or the environment or any other community here.

To make things clearer here are some examples of posts I believe would belong in the news community:

These would belong in this community:

These would belong in the politics community:

These would belong in the politics community but would be well served by a cross-post to environment:

Why?

The main reasons why I want to do this are:

  1. Establishing a distinction in content now is easier from a moderation perspective while there are relatively few people posting news stories - if we do this now it will become clear to new users where content belongs making maintaining the distinction easy.
  2. It makes room in this community for longer-running discussions that people can easily keep track of so less arguments are repeated, since it can become difficult to keep track of many posts.
  3. Users can tune into what they want and out of what they don’t want to hear about. E.g. if you don’t want to know about politics you can completely ignore that community.

Other discussions

There has been a discussion of this issue in this post and in reply to this comment.

Why the long post?

I want to know what everyone’s opinion on the matter is and how this system could be improved or whether it’s worth pursuing at all.

  • sil@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Probably a dissenter but I like having all those stories in one place now. I think the community is too new to start subdividing it up too.

    • Ilandar@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      I think there’s something to be said for having everything in one place for smaller communities, too. You get to develop relationships with other users and hear perspectives that might otherwise not be shared. This is how it used to be with forums, where tons of stuff would just go under the Off-Topic section and you’d get a very wide range of threads and opinions.