(I notice we’re setting aside the question of crawler load, crawlers taking content for training, and the social and economic consequences of the current rapid developments. That’s good.)
For myself, on a low volume hobby site,
- we’re trying to agree and formulate a written policy
- we deal with things as they come up
- the most egregious examples are essentially spam, so we delete and ban
- otherwise, we remonstrate, perhaps in public and perhaps in private, and we may delete posts
A suggested form of guidance might look like this:
- ‘Owning’ the content of messages that you post (i.e. reading & understanding and not blindly copy & pasting content,regardless of where this comes from).
- Trying to answer your own questions to the best of your ability first (e.g. by searching the forum) before starting new threads.
- Communicate specifics in a succinct manner so that other users can read & understand in order to help, i.e. avoid long walls of repetitive or irrelevant text, or overly broad statements without sufficient information.
- Keep discussions on topic, avoid meta discussions (particularly around use of AI - be that ‘best practice’ or ‘ethics thereof’).
- Keep conversations respectful and remember that we have useres with different backgrounds, view and opinions.
- Have fun! This is meant to be a hobby.
(In our hobby environment, there’s an extra angle, which is use of LLMs within the hobby, which covers a spectrum of possibilities and has both its enthusiasts and its detractors.)