Mark IgraI set up sciences.social as a place where social scientists can engaging and productive conversations online.
It’ll be supported as long as folks find it useful. Let me know if you have ideas how this space should be run.
Stefan Laser🗜️@markigra Oh that‘s great, where is it hosted and what‘s your approach to moderation? Let me know if you need help, this could be valuable work
@stefanlaser It's hosted at masto.host . So far there's no official moderation. I ask for all members to be in social science and use real names (which I quickly verify before approving). I think I would like to put in a policy that all non-soc-sci posts have content warnings. The full suite of policies at scholar.social seemed a bit much to me, but would love suggestions. (Of course they have 5000 members and right now we are brand new).
Professor Kerstin Sailer@markigra @stefanlaser Love being on sciences.social and happy to contribute to a thriving community.
Not sure about CWs for non-soc-sci posts (at least not that generically). For example if I post about my long Covid (which renders me incapable of working right now) would that need a CW? Or if I post about photography - a hobby of mine? Or architecture, which is obviously closely related to my research? Just curious where to draw the line as boundaries are fluid in my view
Not sure about CWs for non-soc-sci posts (at least not that generically). For example if I post about my long Covid (which renders me incapable of working right now) would that need a CW? Or if I post about photography - a hobby of mine? Or architecture, which is obviously closely related to my research? Just curious where to draw the line as boundaries are fluid in my view
@kerstinsailer @stefanlaser This is a great question and one I'd like to get broad feedback on before putting in "policy". If posts are about social science (broadly construed) no CW. So architecture definitely OK. If they are rants, or potentially triggering, CW. But the other ones I think are in the gray zone where I think we need a some level of consensus.
Will make an announcement and ask for feedback.