Question asked in a different thread:
Answer:
Nonsuch Facebook and the Nonsuch Community Forum on Discourse (aka known as “here”, “us” or “we”) are overseen by entirely different sets of volunteers, so we don’t have good answers here for questions about Facebook policies.
As for here, as mentioned in the previous post, the Forum’s intended primarily for more technical discussions. These include projects, repairs, sailing skills, boat performance, instrumentation, weather services, sailing apps, etc. Plus, we try to cut reasonable slack.
“Reasonable slack” is a fuzzy term, which currently gets defined as we go along, by me (aka Bob, the moderator, that idiot, and other less printable terms).
Generally, I try to interpret that term based partly on how the group seems to be reacting and partly on whether it connects in some way to my general sense of sailboat-related topics and how far it’s wandered from Nonsuches.
To give some recent examples, a post about a carbon fiber repair on a non-Nonsuch boat was allowed because some Nonsuch owners also have carbon fiber masts and a consequent interest in repair issues.
A recent post about a stolen Hinckley Bermuda 40 was allowed but tags were added marking it as humor because it appeared to be one member gently teasing another. Also, our boats can be stolen, too, and who doesn’t like to hear about Hinckleys?
Another thread, about U.S./Canadian political contretemps, is temporarily down for moderation discussions. Frankly, I hope not to see this forum become disputatious but – as I’ve said to some of the parties – also don’t want to pretend, “la, la, la, … everything’s fine.”
-- Bob