On 2/15/24 19:41, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
Andrey Semashev wrote:
For user-generated content, such as forum and blog posts, videos, comments, issues on the trackers, discussions, etc., as well as personal information provided through account registration, that content belongs to its authors, but Boost Foundation may reserve some rights, such as to be able to moderate and publish it.
I'm not sure we want that.
It's been my impression that the current leadership of the Boost Foundation would like to foster a more inclusive environment for discussions, by way of having an appropriate code of conduct and its corresponding enforcement. This, while commendable, is at odds with our traditional culture of frank and merciless technical discussion. So I'm not sure I'd like the new BF moderated forum you seem to propose.
I think, part of why this discussion culture have succeeded in Boost is the mailing lists, which required registration and pre-moderation of the first post. Most of the time, this was enough of a barrier against spammers and trolls. I'm afraid, a more open platform for user communication will remove that barrier and reduce the discussion quality. I think, some moderation will be inevitable, if we want our discussions to be more productive than e.g. Reddit. But I'm happy to be wrong on this.