Keep in mind the scope of this project:

”We aim to make rooms more searchable and descriptive, so the users can explore thousands of rooms and become a part of the network shortly.”

Is it YOUR PROJECT?!?! Keel in mind that in addition to the room index there is a Homeserver index, AND the Hello-Matrix list is no longer neutral nor objective, but biased and subjective.

True. I was just thinking about being more transparent instead of keeping it private.

Then do not push for keeping listing of some Homeservers "private".

TBH I can’t think of much utility for an un-groomed list of homeservers.

For the umpteenth time, if you want to "groom" your own "curated" list, fork this project and maintain your own list!

I did have a thought a while ago about comparing such a list to known domain blacklists. It might be interesting to see the percentage of blacklisted domains that are hosting a homeserver as part of the population

Yeah, THAT seems to be your only agenda in here Censorship and blacklisting. Fork the repo' and operate YOUR OWN list. This project has seen enough pushy people who do not appreciate the effort.

Good on ya' for being able to read.

Fork the project, or just keep a downstream copy on your own hosting. Then you may issue whatever "scope" or prequalification, criteria, or whatever pedantic ambiguous rhetoric you like to justify your arbitrary curated blacklist grooming.

At risk of starting another heated debate.. you have essentially made the google search for matrix room discovery which is overall a fantastic thing for the community as a whole.

I still don’t see why there shouldn’t be an equivalent of “safe search” that turns off nsfw/nsfl/extreme content. Users can still turn safe search off to see whatever they want.. but default behavior probably shouldn’t promote nsfw/nsfl/extreme content

Tagging is hard. Ran a script the other day that gathered 840 home servers and over 11k public rooms. Reviewing every room by hand is impractical/impossible for one dev.

Possible solutions:

• public reporting (shot down because of abuse potential)
• automatic filters (shot down because of arbitrary closed filtering)
• filtering by obscurity (what we have now but stuff still pops up on the front page from time to time)

It might help to hear from some of the big matrix devs and community operators.. thoughts on moderation and techniques.

Many rooms don’t change often but some are fairly dynamic and their tags should probably have some flexibility as well.

Permanent description approval is a great idea as long as you don’t get overwhelmed by the amount of rooms. Automating still seems like the easiest solution..room owners can submit a ticket for you to manually fix incorrect automated tags.