Re: forum rules and guidelines

Fair enough. :)
We need to spell out in the COC that political art and posts are not
allowed if you don't want that stuff anywhere on the site. I was just
thinking a place to dump the rubbish would be easier, but maybe not. Lol. I
certainly would not go to that section, but I understand someone would
still have to moderate it to some degree. What about religious stuff? To me
that's political too.
Where to draw the line though?

Just a few thoughts.
-C



On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, 03:58 brynn <[email protected] wrote:

> Hi C R (and Will and Steve),
>         Thanks for your comments.  I made a jobs board in Inkscape
> Community,
> because it's a 3rd party forum, and well, because "I can".  But setting up
> something for nudity or politics on the official forum would take a LOT of
> discussion, not to mention words.
>
>         I think the forum, like the rest of the website, needs to be
> family-friendly, by the US definition of family friendly, because it seems
> to be
> the most restrictive (i.e. safe, legally).
>
>         Until the website has some way to hide and label images as "nsfw"
> or
> something like that, I don't think we could have things like political art
> or
> nudity (which are currently excluded by the CoC).  As a moderator, I
> absolutely
> cringe at the thought of "political art" in today's world.  I mean, omg,
> doesn't
> facebook do that job well enough for the whole world already?
>
>         Plus, I have not been thinking of this new forum as having
> sections for
> displaying artwork.  Because I mean, we have the gallery for displaying
> images.
> People could put links to their galley space.  But posting images in the
> forum,
> which are also still in the gallery....I don't know, it just seems
> excessive.
>
>         But I don't know.  So far, it's only you 3 addressed with this
> message
> who have responded.  And I think 2 of you just had to speak up about the
> file
> formats.  And btw, that's just a thought for composing the darn thing.  I
> don't
> expect it to take more than a couple of hours, so it's really not a big
> deal how
> we compose it.
>
>         Anyway, this is the general plan.  Or at least, no one has spoken
> against it.  After we write the rules about how staff (moderators) are
> selected,
> then the staff will be selected.  And then the staff would decide about
> boards
> and categories.  I would think if there are separate rules for separate
> boards,
> they will be posted in a sticky message in that board, and not written
> into the
> forum rules.
>
>         I think a jobs board would be great!  And if the staff wants
> boards for
> displaying artwork, I wouldn't oppose it.
>
>         Do you all really want to help?  Or did you just want to make your
> comments?
>
> All best,
> brynn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C R
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 8:20 AM
> To: Inkscape User Community
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] forum rules and guidelines
>
>
> Here's my crack at a forum code of conduct: "No spam, stay on the forum
> topic,
> be excellent to each other."
>
> Additionally, I recommend we have areas of the forum with additional sets
> of
> rules, based on the content.
>
> For example: political art, jobs (posting), self-promotion (requests for
> commissions) in order to keep other areas free from either of those
> things, but
> give users the freedom to post what they like elsewhere.
>
> Maybe even a section for (legal) adult/nudity/erotica made with Inkscape,
> since
> what counts as offensive varies widely, and there needs to be some
> specific area
> to post so sensitive people (or people at work) don't get an eye-full of
> something they don't like to see.
>
> Thoughts?
> -C
>
> (by legal, I mean no depictions of ANYTHING illegal in the country where
> Inkscape's servers are. We can spell that out if we need to, or leave it
> up to
> the users to look into it.)
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 3:04 PM C R <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I vote markdown as the "format" or non-format if you like. :)
> Then export to various other formats if needed.
>
> -C
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 6:39 AM Steve Litt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:14:45 +0000
> Will Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:36:48 -0700
> > "brynn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >Hi Friends,
> > >        As the new forum is rapidly being finished, it's probably a
> > > good time to
> > >formalize the rules and guidelines for it.  If anyone is interested
> > >in helping to draft this document or documents, please reply here.
> > >
> > >        Once we have a group, we'll decide exactly how we want to
> > > handle this.
> > >When we started on this a couple of years ago, we used FramaPad,
> > >which allows users to edit documents live.  I found it had the basic
> > >features that we needed. Or I think there are other similar types of
> > >sites.  Although I'd be just as happy to be more old school, and
> > >exchange ODT or DOC files.  But we can decide as a group.
> > >
> > >        There aren't really any requirements to participate.  Just
> > > care about
> > >the forum and how it functions  :-)
> > >
> > >All best,
> > >brynn
> >
> > I would suggest using ODT. It may not seem initially any better or
> > more convenient, and although not immune to bugs, at least you can be
> > sure it will never contain any tracking code or third party
> > advertising - both of which which are often vulnerable to injecting
> > exploits on your machine.
>
> ODT is awful. LibreOffice is pretty bad. Why not plain text, or if that
> doesn't work for us, HTML?
>
> SteveT
>
>
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