Yeah, they are both valid considerations, pointing in somewhat opposite directions. Though importantly the second paragraph was about someone bringing meta into an object-level discussion, whereas the first one was about generally making it easy for people to discuss the broad trajectory of the site. I am all in favor of people discussing more stuff in the meta section, but fairly against people derailing a conversation by talking about the moderation guidelines in the middle of an object-level discussion thread.
Yeah, they are both valid considerations, pointing in somewhat opposite directions. Though importantly the second paragraph was about someone bringing meta into an object-level discussion, whereas the first one was about generally making it easy for people to discuss the broad trajectory of the site. I am all in favor of people discussing more stuff in the meta section, but fairly against people derailing a conversation by talking about the moderation guidelines in the middle of an object-level discussion thread.