(2024-07-19, 02:37 AM)Laird Wrote: In the past, we've condoned public threads explicitly about dietary ethics. Whether this was a mistake is open to question. I've messaged Ian (@Ninshub) about this to get his view as a fellow admin. Perhaps we should have a general discussion about it, open to everybody, in a separate thread for that purpose. I'm happy for you or anybody else to start it if you think it's worth it. Otherwise, the remaining founders can discuss it amongst themselves and make a decision. If the decision (whether collective or simply by the remaining founders) is to reserve that content for the opt-in forums, then I'll split all of the posts on dietary ethics out of this thread and into a new one there (and potentially move the preexisting threads too).
We've discussed it and decided that it was not a mistake to have condoned public threads explicitly about dietary ethics, and that we will continue to condone them. However, should the discussion veer into the truly political, then that discussion needs to be taken to the opt-in forums.
I'm flagging this as a moderation post because this is a (collective, unanimous) moderation decision (by the remaining currently-active forum founders - just three of us at this point).