Fictionalized examples, of course, give a convenient amount of wiggle room as to who’s on which side of the example in the non-fictionalized real world.
If your goal is to make it clear who is on the side of a given thing, that’s fine, just not for frontpage. The point of frontpage is to be relevant regardless of how embedded in the rationality community you are.
Note: non-frontpage posts that deal with tribal/social stuff tend to get more traction than frontpage posts, so this doesn’t strike as particularly censorous.
Fictionalized examples, of course, give a convenient amount of wiggle room as to who’s on which side of the example in the non-fictionalized real world.
If your goal is to make it clear who is on the side of a given thing, that’s fine, just not for frontpage. The point of frontpage is to be relevant regardless of how embedded in the rationality community you are.
Note: non-frontpage posts that deal with tribal/social stuff tend to get more traction than frontpage posts, so this doesn’t strike as particularly censorous.