Noise-to-signal ratio

[fiftyfourthparallel]

To those who advocate openness, please read the original discussion where the conclusion to restrict the forum was made. I will link it again for your convenience:

New "general admin, security & privacy" category?

I’d like to float an idea I had a couple of times in the last weeks: an “off-topic” kind of subcategory to “general discussion”. Sometimes interesting discussions start of being Qubes relevant but then branch of into areas that might be considered off-topic. There are different approaches to this, like when @deeplow introduced With a normal mailing list, that’s how you have to handle these situations, otherwise the quality of the list will suffer. However, this is a forum with categories…

Please read through before continuing. To check your understanding, please answer the following question:

What were the reasons behind the decision to restrict the subforum?

I hope you don’t mind how I’m going about this–I think it is reasonable to ask people to at least read and understand an issue before taking up or supporting certain positions.