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There is one specific issue here with one emergency solution. Because of this specific situation, we have discovered a flaw in our system. This flaw needs to be discussed further, and eventually re...
#2: Post edited
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Andreas witnessed the end of the world today
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2024-09-06T23:42:54Z (3 months ago)
- There is one specific issue here with one emergency solution. Because of this specific situation, we have discovered a flaw in our system. This flaw needs to be discussed further, and eventually resolved.
- A few days ago, a new member with no prior experience here, created a new _Movies & Literature_ proposal. Several people flagged interest, myself included. There were also concerns that the proposal was far too wide, and would not work out in practice. More on that later.
- Following this, the author of the proposal has engaged quite a bit on Proposals Codidact, with a generally low level of success, resulting in frustration for both themselves and other users. There have been a lot of misunderstandings, and the author has now come to the conclusion that the best option was to delete the proposal. That would have been fair if it was an awful proposal with no activity in the incubator. That isn't the case. I have a question in the incubator belonging to that proposal, currently having multiple upvotes, and no downvotes.
- I think it's a problem that the author of a proposal can single-handedly delete their proposal like this. I had no idea it had been deleted after they told me in a comment under another post in the meta category, that I was actively commenting on.
- We can take away the author's ability to delete their proposal if there are incubator/meta posts using its tag. However, a well-meaning author acting correctly, simply cleaning up, would run into issues because of this. What else can we do instead, or additionally, so we don't end up in this situation again in the future?
- What do we do about the now deleted proposal? Undelete it? It was a very wide community proposal, and I am confident there are better ways to organize a set of communities covering the topics. My incubator question also happens to be in the fortunate situation that it does not only suit a community for movies, but one for fantasy universes.
- There is one specific issue here with one emergency solution. Because of this specific situation, we have discovered a flaw in our system. This flaw needs to be discussed further, and eventually resolved.
- A few days ago, a new member with no prior experience here, created a new _Movies & Literature_ proposal. Several people flagged interest, myself included. There were also concerns that the proposal was far too wide, and would not work out in practice. More on that later.
- Following this, the author of the proposal has engaged quite a bit on Proposals Codidact, with a generally low level of success, resulting in frustration for both themselves and other users. There have been a lot of misunderstandings, and the author has now come to the conclusion that the best option was to delete the proposal. That would have been fair if it was an awful proposal with no activity in the incubator. That isn't the case. I have a question in the incubator belonging to that proposal, currently having multiple upvotes, and no downvotes.
- I am quite sure the author meant no harm by deleting it:
- > Don't worry about the Movie&Literature/Anime question thing. I deleted the proposal. I should do so with the question as well.
- I think it's a problem that the author of a proposal can single-handedly delete their proposal like this. I had no idea it had been deleted after they told me in a comment under another post in the meta category, that I was actively commenting on.
- We can take away the author's ability to delete their proposal if there are incubator/meta posts using its tag. However, a well-meaning author acting correctly, simply cleaning up, would run into issues because of this. What else can we do instead, or additionally, so we don't end up in this situation again in the future?
- What do we do about the now deleted proposal? Undelete it? It was a very wide community proposal, and I am confident there are better ways to organize a set of communities covering the topics. My incubator question also happens to be in the fortunate situation that it does not only suit a community for movies, but one for fantasy universes.
#1: Initial revision
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Andreas witnessed the end of the world today
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2024-09-06T23:40:20Z (3 months ago)
Proposal authors can cause disruption by deleting their proposal
There is one specific issue here with one emergency solution. Because of this specific situation, we have discovered a flaw in our system. This flaw needs to be discussed further, and eventually resolved. A few days ago, a new member with no prior experience here, created a new _Movies & Literature_ proposal. Several people flagged interest, myself included. There were also concerns that the proposal was far too wide, and would not work out in practice. More on that later. Following this, the author of the proposal has engaged quite a bit on Proposals Codidact, with a generally low level of success, resulting in frustration for both themselves and other users. There have been a lot of misunderstandings, and the author has now come to the conclusion that the best option was to delete the proposal. That would have been fair if it was an awful proposal with no activity in the incubator. That isn't the case. I have a question in the incubator belonging to that proposal, currently having multiple upvotes, and no downvotes. I think it's a problem that the author of a proposal can single-handedly delete their proposal like this. I had no idea it had been deleted after they told me in a comment under another post in the meta category, that I was actively commenting on. We can take away the author's ability to delete their proposal if there are incubator/meta posts using its tag. However, a well-meaning author acting correctly, simply cleaning up, would run into issues because of this. What else can we do instead, or additionally, so we don't end up in this situation again in the future? What do we do about the now deleted proposal? Undelete it? It was a very wide community proposal, and I am confident there are better ways to organize a set of communities covering the topics. My incubator question also happens to be in the fortunate situation that it does not only suit a community for movies, but one for fantasy universes.