I think what most of us want is a high-quality forum where news, discussions, and answers to questions about privacy are relevant. In my view, this forum has taken a bit of a nosedive in recent months. I am not quite sure why, but I hypothesize it has to do with changes to make this forum much more…

Thank you for your feedback. We are going to be stricter about low effort, low quality posting and have published a statement on what types of posts are no longer permitted. Hopefully this improves the situation! [image] Regarding bad-faith arguments in the privacy community Announ…

[image] dngray: Maybe we should have a “low effort” category for posts. This is more about responses, and there isn’t really a way to categorize those, right?

[image] Breeze7846: increased level of extremely basic posts/questions that could be answered with the briefest of glances at the PG website. Examples: “is this random browser fork safe,” " pls approve browser fork because it looks pretty," “is this random google android phone good for privacy,”…

Although I’m new, I couldn’t agree more. But also, I noticed this is the state of many forums elsewhere. I’m not sure what changed. To me, PG is the best places I tried, although I agree with everything that you said.

My main observation on this situation is if we want civil discourse, everyone ought to be very careful when discussing governments. Propaganda is unfortunately everywhere, and people who have received a lot of it strongly believe whatever they have been “taught”. Be focused and well supported in you…

Am I the only one thinking it would be very useful if PG forum has a chatbot trained by PG website contents to try answering people’s question, where they have to mark the “answer” unsatisfactory before creating a new thread? its good to see people to seek advise here, and its bad to see people ask…

[image] Breeze7846: -increased level of extremely basic posts/questions that could be answered with the briefest of glances at the PG website. Examples: “is this random browser fork safe,” " pls approve browser fork because it looks pretty," “is this random google android phone good for privacy,…

Just my opinion: I know it is different than others that have commented so far. This is not meant to discount previous opinions. I like PG just like it is. When a simple question is asked, I learn from a small detail I hadn’t thought of. I realize how annoying it is when you know something alread…

[image] anon21060844: I like PG just like it is. When a simple question is asked, I learn from a small detail I hadn’t thought of. I realize how annoying it is when you know something already and keep hearing that (simple to you) question come up, time and time again, but for others it is a firs…

[image] overdrawn98901: don’t even look at tags, haven’t seemed useful to me at all for finding relevant topics at all. I never look and use tags, to me this forum is already very specific, and the amount of new posts is not too much for just a quick look. If I want to know a specific topic …

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bigdzi (BigG) October 2, 2024, 11:13am 25

Exactly very true. Id add one thing: professionalism is sort-of umbrella term. espencially well seen here on PG.

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