Hello again,
After getting some feedback on what we should do to help our culinary communities growth in the form of a potential “merger”, we have some options and would like each community to vote on the next step. This ballot will be posted and pinned on !recipes, !food, !cooking, and !askculinary, as those are the communities we’re looking to combine. Below are comments corresponding to each vote decision.
Please vote by upvoting one of the comments below. Downvotes will be ignored. This post will be left up for a week or until consensus is decided.
Additional info:
If option 1 or 2 get picked, !cooking@lemmy.world will be a catch-all so to help organize, we will be implementing tagging posts. Since Lemmy does not have built in tagging yet, we will be requiring posts to be tagged in the title. For example a post title could be:
[RECIPE] Beef Stroganoff
or
[QUESTION] If you had to eat only one culture's cuisine for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
The community sidebar will have a list of all approved tags and we will be tweaking this as we go along. Tagging may be implemented on some communities regardless of merging or not.
No matter which direction we go, the other more niche communities such as !bbq, !sousvide, and !koreanfood will be left as they are, though we encourage users to post in both !cooking as well as the more niche communities. (We are looking into possible automating this, but there are some obstacles to think about. If this becomes a possibility, we will pin a post to discuss this further) This should limit the amount of duplicate posts and if users still feel there are too many duplicates in their feeds, they can unsub from the niche community and still see the same content, that is if everyone takes part in posting to all relevant communities.
!FoodPorn will remain it’s own thing as a showcase of food photos. The mods of that community will have final say on what gets posted there. Food photos are still encouraged in all other communities, but additional information may be needed depending on what community it is. See sidebars of each for content rules.
OPTION 1
!Cooking@lemmy.world will become the new main LW culinary community. !AskCulinary, !Food, and !Recipes will be locked until such time we have a larger user base that can support those similar communities. We will periodically check in with each community to gauge whether it’s the right time to reopen. There will be a pinned post pointing user to join !cooking in each community.
This is not meant to be a permanent decision and we hope Lemmy grows to be able to support every niche there is.
OPTION 3
Leave everything as it is. We will make no changes as far as merging/locking communities. All communities will continue to be managed as they are.
OPTION 2
!Cooking@lemmy.world will become the new main LW culinary community but we will NOT be locking any of the other communities. We will treat !AskCulinary, !food, and !recipes the same as all the other niche communities in that we would encourage cross-posting to the main !cooking community as well as look into possibly automating this in the future. There will be a pinned post encouraging cross-posting in each community.