Upvoted, and I think I’d probably answer “yes” if you rewrote the title to be active (specifying WHO wrote the document, not just that it came into being), and used a different word than “norm”, perhaps “site discussion preferences”.
Use of the term “norm” is BOTH too jargon-ey for new users, AND too fuzzy for what you want to convey. Norms are socially enforced, without a visible authority structure, usually very unevenly and opaquely. Norms are evolved within a group, rather than written and durable.
When these expectations are legible, and come from an authority, we call them “rules” or at least “guidelines”. When they’re explicitly not seriously enforced, “desiderata” or “preferences” are closer.
Upvoted, and I think I’d probably answer “yes” if you rewrote the title to be active (specifying WHO wrote the document, not just that it came into being), and used a different word than “norm”, perhaps “site discussion preferences”.
Use of the term “norm” is BOTH too jargon-ey for new users, AND too fuzzy for what you want to convey. Norms are socially enforced, without a visible authority structure, usually very unevenly and opaquely. Norms are evolved within a group, rather than written and durable.
When these expectations are legible, and come from an authority, we call them “rules” or at least “guidelines”. When they’re explicitly not seriously enforced, “desiderata” or “preferences” are closer.