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.
Sounds reasonable approach to me. Also I'd include VPS and other cloud services too. "Is this VPS enough to run NextCloud" is a perfectly reasonable question for this community just like "is my old thinkpad good for...". I don't think there should (nor can) be a hard rule about what hardware to use. Questions obviously outside of self hosting (e.g. "what GPU I should by to play minecraft") should go elsewhere but otherwise I don't think there's even a real need to limit activity.
And also there's a half a dozen of posts here daily (unless mods remove posts really efficiently). My opinion is that even if the post could go to some other community but leans to self-hosting side of things it can stay. Maybe if there was tens or hundreds of posts daily it would make more sense to limit what goes, but as things are now I don't think any kind of (in a lack of a better word) gatekeeping is beneficial to this community nor anyone else.
Agreed on all counts. I think completely removing the middle section and modifying the last part leaves it open on options, inclusive of VPSs, and allowing people the opportunity to explain if its not clear keeps it flexible and allows users to ask why its relevant.
I also think posts that blatantly don't fit get downvoted rather quickly, so getting into specific lists of "what qualifies" and "what doesn't" just doesn't make sense.