Censorship issues and community behavior

[ihnorton]

I moved the discussion of pinging to a new topic:

Community norms for unsolicited communication

I believe any user in discourse, or any similar platform, can change their notification settings to avoid getting “spammed,” should they want. Or else, they can use their email filters for this purpose. Giving an example from discourse, one can visit https://discourse.julialang.org/u/<username>/preferences/{emails,notifications} to disable Send me an email when someone quotes me, replies to my post, mentions my @username, or invites me to a topic or Allow other users to send me private me…