This is my current take, without having touched base with other mods, but I am fairly confident we’d all agree about this upon reflection:
I think using fictionalized examples in frontpage posts or comments is fine. The issue we’re trying to avoid with frontpage is having it be very context heavy social discussion, and/or the place where political conflict is getting resolved. As long as fictional examples don’t quickly turn into thinly veiled references to real people I think they’d be useful for illustrative purposes.
I had some additional thoughts on this, in the context of this comment by Davis on Ialdabaoath’s latest post.
This is my current take, without having touched base with other mods, but I am fairly confident we’d all agree about this upon reflection:
I think using fictionalized examples in frontpage posts or comments is fine. The issue we’re trying to avoid with frontpage is having it be very context heavy social discussion, and/or the place where political conflict is getting resolved. As long as fictional examples don’t quickly turn into thinly veiled references to real people I think they’d be useful for illustrative purposes.