Flinter has been banned after a private warning. I’m deleting the comment thread that led to the ban because it’s an inordinate number of comments cluttering up a welcome thread.
Users are reminded that responding to extremely low-quality users creates more extremely low quality comments, and extended attempts to elicit positive communication almost never work. Give up after a third comment, and probably by your second.
While I respect your decision as a moderator to ban Flinter, insulting Nash is a horrible thing to do and you should be ashamed of yourself!
/ just kidding
Also, someone needs to quickly make a screenshot of the deleted comment threads, and post them as new LW controversy on RationalWiki, so that people all around the world are properly warned that LW is pseudoscientific and disrespects Nash!
/ still kidding, but if someone really does it, I want to have a public record that I had this idea first
Fair enough. Kindest thing to do really. I think people have a hard time walking away even when the argument is almost certainly going to be fruitless.
Flinter has been banned after a private warning. I’m deleting the comment thread that led to the ban because it’s an inordinate number of comments cluttering up a welcome thread.
Users are reminded that responding to extremely low-quality users creates more extremely low quality comments, and extended attempts to elicit positive communication almost never work. Give up after a third comment, and probably by your second.
From Flinter’s comment:
While I respect your decision as a moderator to ban Flinter, insulting Nash is a horrible thing to do and you should be ashamed of yourself!
/ just kidding
Also, someone needs to quickly make a screenshot of the deleted comment threads, and post them as new LW controversy on RationalWiki, so that people all around the world are properly warned that LW is pseudoscientific and disrespects Nash!
/ still kidding, but if someone really does it, I want to have a public record that I had this idea first
this is why we need downvotes
As the Churchill quote goes:
Less Wrong is not, and will not be, a home for fanatics.
Fair enough. Kindest thing to do really. I think people have a hard time walking away even when the argument is almost certainly going to be fruitless.