#unity-talk description

[mint mortar]

-# somewhat revisiting https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1466471691914973427
currently the description for unity talk is this

Non-programming Unity topics & questions not covered by specific channels. Any prolonged discussions and game design questions should be threaded.
while the norm is consistently enforced as a help channel, i feel that "Unity topics & questions" leaves a little ambiguity about the allowed content, leading to some prolonged discussions about off-topic content being allowed.

i think the description could be tweaked/extended to be more explicit about disallowing or discouraging off-topic/social conversations, to more easily keep the channel on-topic.

[normal fractal]

Is there an example of what's been happening?
I see someone occasionally saying that it's a help-only channel, but I've been too busy to bother to say otherwise. It is a social channel, it's just that the topic is entirely constrained to Unity. It's also the catch-all help channel for anything that slips outside of that.

However, there are broader things that we moderate. This server is a development server, broadly discussing Unity games isn't on-topic. Modding doesn't fall under our umbrella either.

If people are having long discussions that are on-topic but are clogging up the channel, then they should be threaded. And personally I'd rather people point to threading conversations before they silence the discussion entirely, unless there are better places for that discussion, or it falls outside of our umbrella.

If someone has a better description for the channel, changing it is a non-issue, but I imagine we'll always have people questioning the edges of the description, so 🤷

[mint mortar]

the instances ive seen have mostly been someone trying to talk about a topic tangentially related to unity, and trying to justify their topic via the channel description. i'm on mobile right now, i'll find some examples later

[normal fractal]

I'll ask for the word "development" to get added in the description to help narrow that a bit