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I just don’t see how closing everyone else out from Trek adjacent discussions helps the community.
The whole point of federation is letting people with varied interests come together. It doesn’t work if every niche interest makes their “general” board private.
I mean, if we're talking about the sidebar...
But I do understand and appreciate the perspective. It's in-line with the internal discussion we had when making the decision.
But aren’t all Trek-related discussions on-topic?
If you’re going to ban “outsiders” from off-topic chat, you should also ban on-topic chat from the off-topic community.
If the concern is that we're going to have a sooper secret, members-only Star Trek discussion group, that is not the intent. If we were going to do that, we'd just make the instance private.
No, I’m concerned about balkanization of the community of Trek fans.
Oh. Okay.