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I'm all for it, particularly if Navindra is on board. One of my other concerns was one expressed by Navindra a while ago: too many forums makes the main page cluttered. But it sounds like he's not worried about it, so I won't either. I hope the idea takes off. I prefer twocat's idea of a separate forum over the subforum tag idea. It's less fiddly.
Draft description:
Personal Journals - Users sharing their piano-related journeys/projects. Please respect any commenting guidelines users have stated in the first post of each discussion.
Then users can put something like this in their first post:
Commenting Guidelines: Positive comments only please.
I worry that guidelines will be easily overlooked, particularly if users are viewing from the "All Discussions" page. It would be nice if a warning message popped up any time someone was about to post a comment: "WARNING: You are posting to a personal journal. Please respect any commenting guidelines the user has stated in the first post of this discussion." A search didn't yield an appropriate Flarum extension, but I did find one other person looking for the same thing: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/21754-tag-instructions-warning-before-post
EDIT: Maybe a similar "please respect the commenting guidelines" message would also be good to have in the "Member Recordings" section.
EDIT 2: Maybe add the following line to the "description" and "warning" above: "If no commenting guidelines are provided, assume that only positive comments are allowed." (Our old discussion regarding the Learner's Lounge rules inspired this idea: rsl12 )