Any post advertising a new project in Announcements. Or new topics that should be moved to Announcements.
I’m not suggesting we do anything about links from individual posts, just new Announcements topics.
That’s not really for me to decide, but the community. My personal opinion is that any llm generated code should come with a disclaimer, others may disagree. But I suggest reading over my “hard cases make bad law” point again. Just because it’s hard to draw distinct lines between things doesn’t mean you shouldn’t moderate it. Let’s look at a curated list from the nixos discourse terms of service:
the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
We could rules lawyer this all day; how pornagraphic? If something’s considered pornagraphic in one country, but not a another, does it count? What if it contains nuditity but is not pornagraphic? What if it contaons no nuditity but is pornagraphic?
the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
What if the content is AI generated? What about helpful bots? Does self promotion count as SEO boosting?
you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by NixOS Foundation or otherwise.
What does it mean to adequetly categorize code? What is type? What is nature?
We could go on but the fact is that rules are full of vagueries and that’s not usually a mistake, but a feature. It lets things be addressed with nuance instead of unbreakable rules. And even with all of these ill-defined rules, the forums are still (mostly) moderated.
A good idea! Personally I wanted to see what other people were thinking with regards to AI. Making a proposal would be the next step. But that requires a bit more thought and effort. It’s also worth noting that, from a practical perspective, changes to the discourse haven’t been easy to bring about. Take for example the petition to add new announcement subcategories.