Welcome everyone to our new Melbourne-flavoured slice of the internet!
I am RustyRaven one of the moderators of this community (AKA BrightFadedDog). I am working to develop some community guidelines so we can make sure that the community stays a productive and welcoming place, and would like to hear what you want.
What would you like the group to focus on? Do you like to dip into the group for a quick update on the latest local news and carrot man sightings, or do you want to spend time with deeper ongoing discussions? Would you prefer to keep the posts strictly to things concerning Melbourne, or would you prefer to be able to be able to get a local perspective on wider issues?
Suggestions for the best way to arrange posts are also welcome – particularly if we should separate some areas of discussion into separate regular or ongoing posts. We could for example have a post for restaurant recommendations or activity suggestions.
I’d also like to know whether you would value having a wiki or other reference source connected to the community.
Feel free to add any ideas, suggestions or things to aim for.
Honestly whenever I needed to search something on Google and Reddit was one of the first options usually it was a reposted question. So I'm not so much against the same question because also if you ask "where's the best bruger joint" and then seven years later someone asks the same question, some of those businesses are probably gone. So yeah, I think some reposts can be annoying (i.e. earthquakes, helicopters, sunsets, etc.) but there are times where it's not so bad.
Normal conversations tend to cover the same ground over and over. If people are jumping in to join the discussion it is probably a good indication it is acceptable. I would tend to lean towards the idea that if there is an active post about a topic people should be directed to that to continue the conversation, but if the last post has died down then starting a new one seems reasonable.
One of my concerns is that longer-term conversations can tend to get lost amoung new posts. Sometimes good discussions on the internet can take place over weeks or even years, if they don't get lost in the flow of new posts.