Here are the core principles on which h2g2.com is based.
NO SPITTING. That started as a joke, but then we realised: no, we were right. Don’t mess up the site. We live here.
BEWARE THE LEOPARD. There really is one, though not in a locked cabinet because we are very humane. Also, it’s metaphorical. As Founder Robbie Stamp says: This is not another dystopian free-for-all. We have governing bodies and order. It will always be clear who makes what decisions where. Even as we distribute decision-making as widely as we can, we should all be clear, when push comes to shove, where the buck stops. We like the idea of Hitchhiker Assemblies, rooted in the growing Citizens Assemblies movement and 42 is a good number for membership of those.
As Douglas Adams put it, “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.” For this reason, we will continue to moderate. We don’t allow trolling. We encourage participation from people who, from time to time, are willing to accept that they might be wrong about something.