Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

I won't take a stance on Discourse but I would like to hear from our 
Discourse moderators about their thoughts on a couple moderation issues 
I've noticed.

#1, posts are being hidden rather aggressively, including seemingly 
innocuous posts like 
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/are-you-happy-with-javascript-programming-language-used-by-gnome-project/1744:

"""
I would like to ask if is there anything that annoys you about 
JavaScript, what makes you angry or inefficient while working with this 
language, or maybe what others do incorrectly when using this language 
to develop Gnome Shell Extensions and Applications.

Is JavaScript here (In the Gnome community) to stay for a long, what 
would be better and why?
"""

I can't imagine any reason that should have been hidden. It makes the 
rest of the topic hard to follow. I'm not sure why users flagged this 
topic (maybe misclicks?) or why human moderators didn't correct it (are 
there humans reviewing reported posts)? Furthermore, it's the first 
post in the topic. Surely the entire topic should be hidden if the 
first post is hidden, since it would be nonsensical to view a topic 
without its starting point.

Another less-serious example of a moderation problem, here:

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/official-applications/1663/2

A low-quality post was hidden, but the follow-up post was not. Now 
people reading the topic will want to go back to the hidden post to see 
why Pavlo wrote what he did. When a post is removed, any other posts 
quoting it should also be removed or the discussion doesn't flow 
properly without the hidden posts, and the point of having hidden the 
first post is defeated.

Michael