Hey everyone, as I previously mentioned the rules here are up for debate, and I’d like to start with the problem that led us all here:
- Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Breaking it up:
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting
Kind of obvious for the community, but perfectly fine to note.
There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing.
Without listing anything here, I think this is pointless and unhelpful. I’d also note that hardware is intrinsic to hosting your own services, and we are talking about people hosting at home, which makes “home computing” here rather confusing. We host these things for our home computing typically. The intention I think was “This is not your generic linux help desk or buildapc”, but that doesn’t come through very well.
If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
I like this not from a moderation perspective, but more of a post clarity perspective. Whats obviously related to selfhosting to the OP may not be obvious to people visiting that post.
Here’s what I propose as a revised rule 3:
Posts here are to be centered around self-hosting. Be prepared to explain to others why it’s related to self-hosting if asked.
Please discuss! Happy to have any additional input on this.
In the meantime, I’m striking out the middle of rule 3 until there is some consensus on wording.
Edit: Its/it’s typo
Edit 2: Slight language update option:
Posts here are to be centered around self-hosting. Please ensure it is clear in your post how it relates to self-hosting.
TL;DR: I support the change in Rule 3
I think the only thing I’d start rolling my eyes at would be if the posts ended up being low effort photo posts of racks of equipment…
Sure, a nice background story might help, but I want to read about something that’ll help me, or help someone understand something I know.
I’m even half interested in cloud based offsite backups as that’s a (possibly) necessary safetynet for us.
I think we’re grown up enough to signpost OT posts elsewhere rather than cry to the mod(s).
(Oh, and thanks btw… I appreciate what you do)
I wouldn’t even hate low effort posts of racks or pure chaos builds made out of broken laptops and pizza boxes…
If it started happening, I think we’d go for like a Show Your Rack Tuesday or whatever, but going back a bit over a month I see just one of those posts.
Definitely!