@espressologic wrote:
Another question for the room might be, how would you write guidelines for this community if you were starting from scratch?
I am actually happy with the guidelines as they currently are, and see no need for change, @espressologic .
I think in trying to make the guidelines shorter and/or easier to understand, we've somehow come up with more distress and uncertainty.
The main point I see is that members who are suffering SI and SH and are in distress or struggling to get through the day (not crisis) are now upset that they feel they can't post things that previously helped them to get through. They rely on the forums here and now feel they can't.
I think that this means that the new guidelines are unclear. That's not to disparage all the work you have put in, at all, @espressologic !
I take note of this point in your OP:
"One of the key pieces of feedback was that our community guidelines are too complicated, with a perception that these are sometimes inconsistently applied to members' posts by our staff."
I don't see any way that guidelines of a forum like this can not be complicated.
To that end, I think @Dimity 's 3-part idea is good.
Thank you for listening to us, and also for pinning this thread to the front page 🙂
