To be clear, I think this specific post was a reasonable fit for the forum, insomuch as it is a proposal for a newsletter, for the reasons you outlined. I agree the forum should accept ideas that are merely plausibly promising, so they can be refined, create useful discussion, and give people the opportunity for growth. And indeed I did not downvote this post.
The issue I was responding to was the question of whether every instalment of the newsletter should be shared on the forum:
It would be helpful to know if people think I should post each issue on the Forum. I know other newsletters, like EA London, do this but I don’t want to clutter the Forum with posts every 2 weeks if people think it’s too off-topic!
Given that the post explicitly raised the question I think it is perfectly legitimate to answer it in the negative.
Sorry if this was not clear. It actually did not even occur to me that this individual post might be inappropriate, so I made no attempt in my comment to distinguish this from my view.
FWIW I had a similar initial reaction to Sophia, though reading more carefully I totally agree that it’s more reasonable to interpret your comment as a reaction to the newsletter rather than to the proposal. I’d maybe add an edit to your high-level comment just to make sure people don’t get confused?
To be clear, I think this specific post was a reasonable fit for the forum, insomuch as it is a proposal for a newsletter, for the reasons you outlined. I agree the forum should accept ideas that are merely plausibly promising, so they can be refined, create useful discussion, and give people the opportunity for growth. And indeed I did not downvote this post.
The issue I was responding to was the question of whether every instalment of the newsletter should be shared on the forum:
Given that the post explicitly raised the question I think it is perfectly legitimate to answer it in the negative.
Sorry if this was not clear. It actually did not even occur to me that this individual post might be inappropriate, so I made no attempt in my comment to distinguish this from my view.
FWIW I had a similar initial reaction to Sophia, though reading more carefully I totally agree that it’s more reasonable to interpret your comment as a reaction to the newsletter rather than to the proposal. I’d maybe add an edit to your high-level comment just to make sure people don’t get confused?
That makes sense! My mistake.