[dredmorbius]

Perhaps, as with other potentially open-ended discussions, schedule and time-box this?

A quarterly/half-year transparency report or audit post, say, discussed at the time of posting, perhaps.

[dang]

It makes me tired and depressed just to read that. Nor would it help; it would generate an order of magnitude more questions and objections and meta.

What works is personal interaction with particular users.

[dredmorbius]

Hence the time-boxing.

Open outcry isn't the best Q&A / conversational model. It's HN's default.

The Scholastic Instruction model has merits: lectio, meditatio, quaestio, disputationes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism#Scholastic_instr...