Thinking in my next DIY

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Not in Inspiration category, which as @Marino said is for actual finished projects sharing (she explainned it very well).

Something like that should go to General category. But I think it goes a little bit further, and here I’m going to speak up and share my opinion.

The community guidelines talks about keeping it tidy, using emoji reactions instead of answering every comment with +1, me too, aha…

Community Guidelines📚

But there’s something is not in the guidelines but it is common sense. We’re around (I don’t know) 2k community members, lets say around 200 more or less active.

Let’s say I open a couple of topics a week such us, and here let me exagerate a bit with humor:

"Title: Red, white, green or black?

Content: I’m about to prepare a cup of tea to relax while crafting. What kind of tea do you prefer?

Here goes a tea cup photo"

It should mean 400 topics a week about “crafting”, the subject of this community.

The forum has been packed with that kind of topics last month, which together with all the regular activity of that lot of new members and so much official activity. In a month when a lot of members where disconnected having their deserved rest. In the come back, it’s been a bit of a nightmare keeping up.

I think it is nice having SOME fringe topics from time to time, but it’s even happening that there were many talking topics on things we already had talky tuesdays on, for instance, or someone had already opened another. The community guidelines also speak about using already existing topics when it has already been discussed, so some previous earch is needed before starting one. I understand when it happens on things such us “i cannot calibrate” (also avoidable but at least a real question). But I think it cannot become a habit from some users.

It’s a bit disturbing, to be honest, and I think everyone should refrain a bit and think about the community well being.

That said, thank for your understanding.

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