> but do you really want to draw borders around a fixed and unmoving set of allowed topics? second-order effect: having a #games channel and not a #movies chann

> but do you really want to draw borders around a fixed and unmoving set of allowed topics? second-order effect: having a #games channel and not a #movies channel discourages discussion of movies because there’s not a “proper place” for it First, many discord channels are based around a topic, not a person, so sub-topics come naturally. Second, there usually is a request channel that allows one to voice a need for a new channel, and there's role system that can permit any designated persons to harmlessly create channels.