Forum moderation policy?

[JohnDoe]

There's no need for any policy currently since the forum's traffic is pretty low but I thought it would be a good idea to start discussing it now just in case Namecoin suddenly becomes very popular.

Personally I'd like this forum to be more limited in scope than the Bitcoin one, centered mostly around core development, project development, newbie/merchant/mining support and business advertisement. A more professional feel in other words, like discussed in this thread: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17288.0. This would require harsh action towards threads/posts that go outside the scope of the forum or that would be considered by most to have low to zero value. Some examples of what I'd consider low to zero value:

http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=170
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=175
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=204
http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=176

Before you cry censorship and fascism, consider that a better way to promote free speech is to make Namecoin popular, and that challenge becomes easier by having a business-friendly forum instead of a ghetto/troll cave like the Bitcoin forum.

[imperi]

I agree with you on all counts. I would like this forum to be more professional than the Bitcoin forums. You could suggest in the rules that someone create an alternative, unofficial forum for looser moderation if they do not agree with the stricter rules.

[joso]

I agree as well.

[itsnotlupus]

I agree in that it's urgent to do nothing.

Beyond that, it's fine to want to cleanly separate topics between dev talk, user talk and bs talk to cope with an hypothetical usage growth.

I'm not sure we'd need entirely different forums for these. Properly defined sub-forums and mods moving topics aggressively would probably be sufficient.

[khal]

I agree on a forum reorganization too.

I would like to make a better separation between Namecoin (the project, the protocol, etc) and Namecoin usages (Dot-BIT project, private namespace [will be used to store gpg keys, ssl certs, maybe identities] and all other future usages). I guess each project will have its own entries in user, business and dev sections or each usage can have its own section instead.

First, we need to list all things we want and then sort them :p
http://dot-bit.org/Forum_Reorganization

[JohnDoe]

I agree on a forum reorganization too.

I would like to make a better separation between Namecoin (the project, the protocol, etc) and Namecoin usages (Dot-BIT project, private namespace [will be used to store gpg keys, ssl certs, maybe identities] and all other future usages). I guess each project will have its own entries in user, business and dev sections or each usage can have its own section instead.

First, we need to list all things we want and then sort them :p
http://dot-bit.org/Forum_Reorganization

You mean a separation between these topics within this forum, like one category with a couple subforums for each? Or did you mean something more elaborate like one separate forum for each?

[khal]

You mean a separation between this topics within this forum, like one category with a couple subforums for each? Or did you mean something more elaborate like one separate forum for each?

All on this phpBB instance : http://dot-bit.org/forum/.

Something like this (in simplified) :

Namecoin
- general
- business
- dev

Dot-BIT
- general
- business
- dev

"p/"
- general
- business
- dev


Or :

General
- Namecoin
- Dot-BIT
- "p/"

Business
- Namecoin
- Dot-BIT
- "p/"

Dev
- Namecoin
- Dot-BIT
- "p/"

[JohnDoe]

First, we need to list all things we want and then sort them :p
http://dot-bit.org/Forum_Reorganization

Wrote a proposition. Criticism welcomed.

Another issue is whether to allow discussion of things that may be illegal in some countries, like drugs, gambling, piracy or even porn. In my opinion if we want to look professional we should try to be a walled garden and respect the law (even if the law is retarded).

[JohnDoe]

So finally the Bitcoin forum got unlinked from bitcoin.org and it looks like it will be moved to a new domain. Here some of the dev discussion about it: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru ... evelopment

I hope y'all take the walled garden approach into serious consideration so that we can avoid the same fate of turning into a ghetto and having the devs retreat to mailing lists.

[gigabytecoin]

First, we need to list all things we want and then sort them :p
http://dot-bit.org/Forum_Reorganization

Wrote a proposition. Criticism welcomed.

Another issue is whether to allow discussion of things that may be illegal in some countries, like drugs, gambling, piracy or even porn. In my opinion if we want to look professional we should try to be a walled garden and respect the law (even if the law is retarded).

Why host discussions about trading period if you want to keep the forum "professional"?

Leave the trading and talking of possibly illegal goods to another website to deal with.