Hey everyone. Thanks for being a part of the forum. I’m thinking we’re going to need a set of house rules here to make it easier to moderate. What do you think we should include? My initial thoughts are no hating, nothing overtly mean or condescending to people, no spamming. Someone sent me a message yesterday warning that folks will be trying to use it to hype their businesses/products…. Maybe we create a separate category for that?
I think early on you need to find any way to keep the conversations rolling. Especially considering it’s the same 10 of us that post on every forum already anyway haha.
I sort of dislike the forums that say no ads at all. It’s to black and white. Promotion can be a grey area but it also helps To get the people who would benefit the group the most.
On the Software communities people are required to disclose their affiliations to help you read between the lines of their comments, and they must abide by vendor guidelines (eg slippin into DMs to push for demos not allowed)
I guess that maybe the affiliation bit applies here, as well as some vendor guidelines to keep things civilised
Thinking of doing some ads on the side to help pay for hosting costs. Gonna be $100 for up to 100k views a month. Gonna cover the first couple months while we figure it out. More expensive than a lot of forum platforms but I didn’t have time to set them up and had a couple tech buddies tell me discourse is the best.
If you can’t edit it, just reply to it. Normally edit is the three dots or a pencil looking icon near the reply button. Sometimes it goes away after awhile.