@RunningInCircles I think (and I'm feeling my way a bit carefully here) the framing of this as "asking nicely" sets up a client dynamic that works in a lot of projects, but may not work so fluidly in community building.
I'm really thinking about how good community platforms can be co-produced.
Mastodon evolution, for example, still has some assumptions about GitHub as common ground. Also Discourse. Does that matter? Maybe not, if users are just non-tech clients.