it is quite a bit of cognitive overhead for the average commenter to have to memorize the moderation norms of 20 different personal blogs
yeah i’m worried about this…
would like it if there were some obvious indication when someone’s moderation policy significantly deviates from what one would typically expect, such that I will definitely be sure to read theirs if it’s unusual (like the poetry one).
and otherwise, I’d want to encourage ppl to stick to the defaults…
Also seems like, given LW’s structure, it makes way more sense to have “moderation policies for posts” and not “moderation policies for blogs / authors.” I don’t really see the blogs. I see the posts. I really can’t distinguish very well between blogs. So I’m going to check post-level moderation policy and not really track blog-level / author-level moderation policy.
And as an author, I may want each of my posts to have different policies anyway, so I might change them for each post… I dunno how that works right now.
If you’re doing the poetry thing, I think that’s cool/unique enough that you should mention it in the post itself (and the comment section should likely change colors, or something), plus if you read the comments it presumably should be clear something’s going on?
Default can still be, you have different guidelines for different posts, and I only check them when I actively want to comment and am worried about violating the guidelines.
Also seems like, given LW’s structure, it makes way more sense to have “moderation policies for posts” and not “moderation policies for blogs / authors.” I don’t really see the blogs. I see the posts. I really can’t distinguish very well between blogs. So I’m going to check post-level moderation policy and not really track blog-level / author-level moderation policy.
I absolutely agree with this given the current LW2 UI, but note that this situation may be altered by UI changes without modifying the underlying structure / hierarchy of the site.
Blog-level norms show up on each individual post (the issue is just that it’s not as obvious as I’d like where that lives)
Once we implement post-level norms (which we plan to soonish), they’d also show up on the individual post.
FYI, right now my own blog-level-norms specify “I usually have a goal for a given post, will usually explain that goal or it’ll be obvious, and I reserve the right to delete comments that aren’t furthering the goals of the discussion I want”
As Said mentions, this is mostly a UI problem, and while I think it’ll take some more experimentation I think it’s pretty fixable.
yeah i’m worried about this…
would like it if there were some obvious indication when someone’s moderation policy significantly deviates from what one would typically expect, such that I will definitely be sure to read theirs if it’s unusual (like the poetry one).
and otherwise, I’d want to encourage ppl to stick to the defaults…
Also seems like, given LW’s structure, it makes way more sense to have “moderation policies for posts” and not “moderation policies for blogs / authors.” I don’t really see the blogs. I see the posts. I really can’t distinguish very well between blogs. So I’m going to check post-level moderation policy and not really track blog-level / author-level moderation policy.
And as an author, I may want each of my posts to have different policies anyway, so I might change them for each post… I dunno how that works right now.
If you’re doing the poetry thing, I think that’s cool/unique enough that you should mention it in the post itself (and the comment section should likely change colors, or something), plus if you read the comments it presumably should be clear something’s going on?
Default can still be, you have different guidelines for different posts, and I only check them when I actively want to comment and am worried about violating the guidelines.
I absolutely agree with this given the current LW2 UI, but note that this situation may be altered by UI changes without modifying the underlying structure / hierarchy of the site.
Blog-level norms show up on each individual post (the issue is just that it’s not as obvious as I’d like where that lives)
Once we implement post-level norms (which we plan to soonish), they’d also show up on the individual post.
FYI, right now my own blog-level-norms specify “I usually have a goal for a given post, will usually explain that goal or it’ll be obvious, and I reserve the right to delete comments that aren’t furthering the goals of the discussion I want”
As Said mentions, this is mostly a UI problem, and while I think it’ll take some more experimentation I think it’s pretty fixable.