[wp-forums] Proposed draft

[Podz]

If we can't get a draft, we can't have a forum.
And even if we don't get a forum we still need some consensus about what
is and is not acceptable.

This is a long game - we want these forums to be as useful in a year as
they are today and although I don't think we can get rid of all the
gaming and dubious stuff, we can take steps toward safeguarding a
resource for the many WP users - including those who may feel so out of
their depth and confused that they will start handing over cash.

By these threads here this is an issue which is going to be difficult to
grasp but I don't see that we have a choice. A forum may not be the
answer but we certainly need to define things from where we are.

So with that in mind and to start the ball rolling........ it's there as
a catalyst not a finished article.

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