I appreciate the move to Discussion. It looks like there are good ideas here, but it’s not polished enough for my standards of Main.
(Maybe I should write a post about the expectations for posts in Main vs. Discussion. Such a post would only be one person’s take on a very meta issue, so obviously it would go in Discussion.)
Having explicit guidelines is definitely good, Unfortunately, the sort of people who post straight to Main are unlikely to ever read the guidelines. This calls for a technical solution (e.g. all but meetup posts must be promoted to Main (manually or upon reaching some upvote threshold), not posted there directly, maybe with a few exceptions for admins and SIAI staff).
I appreciate the move to Discussion. It looks like there are good ideas here, but it’s not polished enough for my standards of Main.
(Maybe I should write a post about the expectations for posts in Main vs. Discussion. Such a post would only be one person’s take on a very meta issue, so obviously it would go in Discussion.)
Having explicit guidelines is definitely good, Unfortunately, the sort of people who post straight to Main are unlikely to ever read the guidelines. This calls for a technical solution (e.g. all but meetup posts must be promoted to Main (manually or upon reaching some upvote threshold), not posted there directly, maybe with a few exceptions for admins and SIAI staff).