There was some context to this in this meta thread about using personal examples of social stuff on frontpage posts, which I’ve just added some additional thoughts to. tldr: I think fictionalized examples are basically fine.
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.
There was some context to this in this meta thread about using personal examples of social stuff on frontpage posts, which I’ve just added some additional thoughts to. tldr: I think fictionalized examples are basically fine.
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.