The BeWelcome Forum is a central place for discussions on BeWelcome. It is accessible from the top menu Explore > Community. There you can find the BeWelcome Forum in the lower section of the page. This is the right place to find and start discussions which are relevant for the whole BeWelcome community (for example, ideas for improvement of the website, discussions about procedures and practices on BeWelcome, announcement of big international hospitality events).
The BeWelcome Forum offers different categories to post in: "General", "BW Citizen", "Technical Help", "Politics". There are also geographical categories available, for local information and discussions we recommend posting in the respective groups though. Apart from posting in the displayed categories you can label your post with different tags to help other members find your post.
If you start a new thread in the BeWelcome Forum, the default visibility of that post is "members only" (i.e. all BeWelcome members can see the post). You can also choose the visibility "world" (the post can be found by search engines throughout the internet) instead. If you post in an existing thread in the Forum, the default visibility of your post follows the thread visibilty (i.e. visibility of the first post in this thread). However, you can change the setting for your own posts individually.
Please note that the Community page does not only contain discussions which are posted in the BeWelcome Forum but also discussion from groups you are a member of and even discussions from other groups if their visibility is not limited to group members only. If you do not care for seeing posts from groups you are not a member of, you can click on "Show only posts to my groups".
The default language for BeWelcome Forum posts is English. You can also choose to post in another language, in which case you should explicitly choose the respective language in the drop down menu below the input field. You can also translate your own posts into different languages. For this, first post it in one language and then click on "Edit", choose another language, translate your message into that language and save your changes.
If you find a post in the BeWelcome Forum which you feel is violating the BeWelcome Forum and Group Forum Charter you can report the respective post by clicking on the "Report to moderator" link in the bottom right corner of that post. This report goes to the "Forum Moderators", a small team of selected volunteers which can edit or delete post according to the rules.
