On 6/4/19 3:15 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>  I looked at the links a bit, but there's very little substance there. Does
> anyone want to give some more context and background?

There are several elements being discussed; but noting, in no particular
order, some of them;

(a) The forums are hosted on Gentoo infra and in the name of the
distribution, but there is a very split user and developer base; are the
forums properly moderated wrt (i) CoC (ii) legal liability / copyrights
(iii) potential PR issues towards the distribution for user contributed
content;

(b) Part of (a) discussion is appeals process, so a user banned from
forums can appeal a ban to other parts (comrel, council), so a decision
with regards to forums also affects other projects / groups within the
distribution. Is the additional overhead worthwhile?

(c) The discussion has mostly focused on OTW (Off-The-Wall) section of
the forums, one argument for keeping it is it is a convenient place for
moderators to move threads that are started in other forums but doesn't
belong there instead of deleting it, and keeping off-topic discussion in
separate threads minimize the noise for the rest of forums.


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