Timeline for Are social announcements not related to Ubuntu or the site on-topic on Meta?
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| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:49 | history | edited | Fabby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | user364819 | Also in brackets after that sentence it says "asking questions about how the websites work, or about policies and community decisions", so I don't see how social announcements come under any of those, and that is the further explanation of that sentence. | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:41 | comment | added | user364819 | Who wrote these rules anyway? Maybe we could ask them to come in and clarify... | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | user364819 | "the workings and policies of Ask Ubuntu", I don't see how that includes these sorts of social announcements that have nothing to do with how the site works nor its policies. But if this is so, then the rules should be edited to say it in a more clear way, until then, it's going to remain very confusion and an opinionated discussion of how to perceive the meaning of that sentence. | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:37 | comment | added | Fabby | The prime directive is "Meta Ask Ubuntu is the part of the site where users discuss the workings and policies of Ask Ubuntu rather than discussing Ubuntu itself. " anything following that is subservient to the prime directive! ;-) editing again... | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:36 | comment | added | user364819 | It's going to become very confusing and unfair if on one day a post is allowed, and on another it is not just because of who's around. If Meta is more of a relaxed place where you can put these kinds of social announcements, then please, amend the rules. | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:35 | comment | added | user364819 | We should have dynamic rules that can change, but we shouldn't just say "ignore the rules and look at the votes you get" because which day I post my post on then could make all the difference. | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:35 | comment | added | user364819 | So one just has to post and see if it is accepted by the community? That doesn't seem very fair because that will depend on who's online, their opinions, and how they are feeling. The reason we have a rules section is to clearly define what can and what cannot be posted here, if the community wants something to be allowed which currently is not in the rules section then the rules should be amended, not just ignored. | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 15:10 | history | edited | Fabby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2016 at 15:05 | comment | added | Fabby | I'm sorry not to have been clear enough, but you don't seem to be getting my point: the community decides what's on- and off-topic here; cute pictures that will make people feel good would be downvoted into oblivion (my guess, but I could be wrong: try it out ;-)) whereas this has 21 upvotes at the time of this writing! :-) :-) :-) | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 11:41 | comment | added | user364819 | If this is what the community wants, then the rules should be amended, until then, it remains off-topic. And by your logic, one could probably argue for anything to be posted here, even for me to start posting cute pictures because it may improve how humans feel. | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 11:38 | comment | added | user364819 | This is also slightly worrying because it suggests that the rules say one thing, but depending on who's online and how they feel, anything is allowed. So if it is not defined in the rules, how can one know what is on-topic and have a fair system? | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 11:38 | comment | added | user364819 | Until they explicitly say this in the rules section it will remain off-topic. Because they do not actually say anything about "improving inter-human communication", they say "where users discuss the workings and policies of Ask Ubuntu rather than discussing Ubuntu itself", nothing there suggests that one can post things not related in any way to the site. | |
| Jan 9, 2016 at 23:57 | history | answered | Fabby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |