I’m very pro-deprioritizing of community posts. They invariably get way more engagement then other topics and I don’t think this is only an FTX related phenomenon. Community posts are the manifestation of in/out group tensions and come with all of the associated poor judgement and decorum. The EA forum’s politics and religion.
Obviously they are needed to an extent, but it is entirely reasonable to give the less contentious contributions a boost.
I feel like people are treating the counterfactual as ‘no way to filter out community posts’; whereas the forum software currently allows you to filter for any given tag, and could easily be tweaked to (or possibly already allows you to) filter out a particular tag.
So the primary counterfactual isn’t ‘no separation’ it’s ‘greater transparency and/or community involvement in what gets tagged “community”’.
I’m very pro-deprioritizing of community posts. They invariably get way more engagement then other topics and I don’t think this is only an FTX related phenomenon. Community posts are the manifestation of in/out group tensions and come with all of the associated poor judgement and decorum. The EA forum’s politics and religion.
Obviously they are needed to an extent, but it is entirely reasonable to give the less contentious contributions a boost.
I feel like people are treating the counterfactual as ‘no way to filter out community posts’; whereas the forum software currently allows you to filter for any given tag, and could easily be tweaked to (or possibly already allows you to) filter out a particular tag.
So the primary counterfactual isn’t ‘no separation’ it’s ‘greater transparency and/or community involvement in what gets tagged “community”’.