I’ve created this community after getting frustrated with my experience in other Indian communities. I hope for something neutral like the Hacker News and something edifying and stimulating like LessWrong while using the connection we have with other Indians for self-growth.

Here are my views (as posted on another instance).

I’d hope for a community that is:

• Scientifically oriented.
• Rationally minded.
• Wants to grow at individual level and at community level holistically. - Ranging from intellectual growth to personality and behaviour improvement, with aim to increase life satisfaction.
• Open to all ideas without belittling those of different opinion. At the same time if enough evidence is present, support the thesis with confidence.
• Has healthy amount of self doubt and doesn’t judge absolutely unless supported by hard facts.

I’d suggest the non-goals be:

• To be so India specific that things which aren’t directly related to India gets deleted even if the community is interested in discussing it.
• Put rules above the wishes of community. For example, deleting a post because it’s somewhat related to a mega-thread that was posted a day back.
• Allow everything in the name of free speech. Facts and evidence (data) win over opinion.
• Be a link aggregation community rather than discourse oriented community. (E.g., Titles should encourage discussion and it should be OKAY have title be different from the article title.)