Atomozero I appreciate the nudge, and the repo URL will be open for anyone to share there. But I don't think I'll be reactivating my account or opening a new one over there for now. It's still an open wound, and I'd rather be honest about that than pretend I'm over it. The software is welcome there even if I'm not the one carrying it in.
Ah, I wasn't saying that you specifically should reopen your account, though I suppose you could if you want to. I meant somebody else here, maybe even me, could post about this.
Alas, I fear both sides have been wounded by this. For example, how aggressively you pushed AI in the Claude Code tutorial seems to have hurt some of the moderators (not too certain about most of them since I wasn't very active back then, but one moderator almost quit relatively recently because they were getting tired of the sum total of your behavior), but I can also see how some of our behavior would have hurt you. The challenge here, I believe, is how to discuss these things as respectfully as we can and how we can understand each other the best we can.
I have found moderating controversy, such as the LLM controversy, to be somewhat stressful. There often seems to be no way to make everybody happy. Obviously, trying to do well still yields better results than just doing whatever you want to, but there often didn't seem to be any perfect solution to some of the issues that came up with the AI and moderator controversy. Also, it needs to be said that we are moderating as part of a team. Even if we as individuals have an idea that we think would work well (I certainly had mine), we have to compromise with each other to be able to do our work effectively. We certainly wouldn't want a split in the moderating team! So, that's another challenge to navigate with these controversies. That being said, I certainly do enjoy moderating as part of a team, because we don't have to deal with these issues alone.
If your forum gains traction, you probably will need to deal with some of these things yourself eventually. I suspect most of the people attracted by your forum will probably be pro-LLM, so you probably won't have to navigate that controversy among your members. But you probably will need to deal with individual members sometimes being too vocal about their beliefs to the extent that they are attacking others and arguing in bad faith. That's perhaps the most likely event that will happen in time. Good luck!
