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Discussion

An open space for honest conversation about the ideas on this site — and for building the community that makes transition possible.

How this works

These are live discussion rooms. Choose a topic, create a free account (no email required — just pick a username), and join in. Messages appear in real time.

What's welcome

  • Honest questions, even skeptical ones
  • Respectful disagreement and debate
  • Sharing relevant research, evidence, or experience
  • Ideas for the site, the transition, or local action
  • Reports from community experiments

What's not

  • Personal attacks, threats, or harassment
  • Hate speech or dehumanizing language
  • Spam, advertising, or self-promotion
  • Deliberate disruption or trolling

Moderators may remove content that violates these guidelines. Repeated violations result in account suspension. Useful ideas posted in the Ideas and Proposals room may be evaluated for incorporation into the site or further research. Ideas you share may inform the project’s development, but the copyright in your own wording stays yours unless you explicitly license it for reuse.

How moderation works

  • Criticism is welcome. Strong disagreement with the site, its ideas or its author is never removed for being critical. Moderators act on behaviour, not opinions.
  • Removed at once: spam and bots, threats or any call for violence, sharing someone’s private information, slurs and dehumanising language.
  • Everything else is handled step by step: a reminder, then removal of the message, a private warning, a time-out, and only then a ban, which needs two moderators to agree.
  • Report a problem by sending a private message to a moderator, or email community.forum@worldintransition.net. The same address handles appeals; a moderator who was not involved reviews them.
  • Openness: a short monthly summary of moderation actions, without names, is posted in General Discussion.

Your data

Creating an account requires only a username and password — no email or personal information. Your messages are stored on our discussion server so conversations persist; they are deleted automatically after 30 days. You can delete your account at any time. There is no password recovery: because no email is used, a forgotten password cannot be reset. Save it somewhere safe, such as a password manager; if it is lost, you can create a new account. Participation is entirely voluntary and has no effect on your ability to read anything on this site. See our privacy page for full details.

Discussion rooms

Log in or create a pseudonymous account below, then choose a room here or from the list in the chat.

No email is needed, so a forgotten password cannot be recovered. Save yours somewhere safe.

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