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 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”’.