Without the Slack message limit, I'll be testing bringing back the #___general channel for chat not tied to place or topic. We killed it 6 months ago due to 1) too much moderating and 2) valuable messages from the 10,000 Slack message limit getting eaten away by off-topic discussions. I'm trying it again with strict guidelines now to see if it works. ❤️

Also I'll be improving the Discord integration because more and more people seem to prefer to chat on Discord than Slack. But we can support both for awhile I think.

Notice two recent threads in #bali been deleted. I'm addressing this as a matter of our ongoing moderation transparency.

This action was in response to a post being deleted which violated the Terms of Service of this community. As the threads had evolved into a debate about the community standards and moved away from the channel's topic, a request was made in public to take any further comments into DM, which were regrettably ignored. To lessen the likelihood that others would add in their commentary, I have chosen to delete the threads.

As a reminder, posts of a promotional nature generally will be deleted as they violate the Terms of Service. One of the core foundations of this community's chat platform is to treat it as a space for natural conversation. See it as a bar. Would you like strangers selling to you in a bar unsolicited? Don’t promote products/services/startups/web site/social media/agreements/opportunities unless it’s relevant in the context of the discussion that you are actively engaging in. Artificially seeding conversation to promote falls under the same category.

Posts that traditionally would be accepted on Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, job boards etc are generally not welcome on this site to keep the conversational aspect alive, as well as to avoid filling channels with advertisements. Also note, the choice to limit these posts are in direct response to several scams that had occurred in the past on this platform.

A comment raised today was that "Nomad List doesn't have a spam or scam problem". This misconception is likely due to the several dozens of posts that are captured by the moderators every week. Unacceptable posts don't last long in the wild for them to be noticed thanks to the moderators and users who report items missed by the mods/ModBots. If the spam problem lessens or if users can propose a reasonable solution to this issue, the terms might be relaxed, however, until that occurs, we have to respect all members of the community who traditionally are very vocal when it comes to promotional posts in chat. These post limitations has been in place for years within this community.

The terms of service can be found here nomadlist.com/faq#tosbr />
If you'd like to discuss this issue further, feel free to send me a direct message.

⚠️ A monthly reminder that if you've been auto-warned by the bot for bad avatars, promotion, advertising, cross-posting, spam etc please don't ignore it and especially DO NOT TRY to bypass the bot by modifying your post or having others post it for you.

I can't lift account suspensions for those inevitable ‘OMG I didn't think it was serious’ situations. If you don't know the guidelines, don't post and ask for forgiveness later.
Any general questions, head to nomadlist.com/settings - any moderation questions, send me a DM.

Nomad List guidelines can be found at nomadlist.com/faq#guidelines