Community Guidelines and Civilized Discourse online - let's discuss
Alanna Irving
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We now have a community moderation policy.
I was inspired by this post on the Discourse blog: The Universal Rules of Civilized Discourse, which goes into depth about how they developed their community guidelines.
Obviously Loomio as an organization and all group coordinators and Loomio users have an inherent interest in this topic. How can you have a good discussion online? How can we develop Loomio to support that? For the Loomio case, good, productive discussion is essential to ultimately making good decisions and increasing engagement.
Does this Loomio Community group need guidelines? Moderation? Should we give all group coordinators space to spell out their guidelines from a blank slate, or should Loomio be more opinionated? Interested in your thoughts.
Anna Guenther Fri 6 Sep 2013 2:09AM
@alannakrause that is a fabulous idea! I can help you, but would love it you took the lead on writing up what you think we've learned about online discussion and decision making, if you're keen? Will send through a google doc link
Nick Gerritsen Sat 7 Sep 2013 2:37AM
I like it -
Best
Nick
Deleted account Sat 7 Sep 2013 4:01PM
Thanks @alannakrause I hadn't come across the Discourse platform before. I do like their community guidelines.
I think generally it would be useful for Loomio to be opinionated as a default, with co-ordinators/groups being able to change them easily in accordance with their own requirements - a group of 15 people known to each other will have different to a group of 5,000 people.
Emma Hosking Sun 8 Sep 2013 7:22AM
Great ideas @alannakrause. I agree with @annaguenther that it would be great if you wrote up something like this for the blog :-) We definitely have this kind of idea in the pipelines for blog features, but need lovely writers like you!
max noble Sat 14 Sep 2013 12:23PM
comments:
constructive
funny
kudos
We don't have time for negativity
Richard D. Bartlett Mon 16 Sep 2013 2:29AM
Wow that is such a great article! Thanks @alannakrause.
Tobias Eigen Tue 22 Apr 2014 3:22AM
Did this ever happen? I love this idea as I love what the folks over at discourse.org are doing to encourage 'civilized' forum discussions.
Alanna Irving Tue 22 Apr 2014 4:13AM
Hi @tobiaseigen we did take a first step when we agreed the Community Moderation Policy
Tobias Eigen Tue 22 Apr 2014 4:20AM
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I am just getting my feet wet and am inspired, so bear with me as I learn my way around loomio. :)
Alanna Irving · Fri 6 Sep 2013 2:07AM
On a related note, I would love to see the Loomio blog featuring some of our knowledge about online discussion and decision making in a way similar to this, with general appeal whether you're a user of the software or not. I found this link on Hacker News and I'm not a Discourse user (although I admire their product), meaning it's been viewed by and judged useful to thousands and thousands of people. I wonder what we could share that would be as useful to a general audience?
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