I am suggesting that people comment and vote a certain way; I don’t have control over the moderators, who would be the ones with the power to do anything about the post itself. Let me explicitly state that I think people probably shouldn’t upvote this post, even if it contains things they like, if they think (as I do) that it will promote and increase object-level political discussion. Unfortunately, because downvoting is disabled (for unrelated good reasons I support), it’s hard for me and others to formally note disapproval (by downvoting) of the politics, so I’m asking other people to try to avoid noting (in the upvote sense) approval of it unless they really mean it.
I am a moderator here. I have been contemplating removing this post for most of the time since I saw it. I am still indecisive. Feel free to comment here or PM me with your preferences.
I wish I had a strong opinion to offer on this question. I think there are probably good arguments both for and against removing the post. I wish you luck in your difficult role.
I think object-level political discussion is undesirable for LW (at least at this time), but that’s quite tangential to this post, which is mostly about meta-level issues—and I consider these to be quite important. I think the post should stay.
I am suggesting that people comment and vote a certain way; I don’t have control over the moderators, who would be the ones with the power to do anything about the post itself. Let me explicitly state that I think people probably shouldn’t upvote this post, even if it contains things they like, if they think (as I do) that it will promote and increase object-level political discussion. Unfortunately, because downvoting is disabled (for unrelated good reasons I support), it’s hard for me and others to formally note disapproval (by downvoting) of the politics, so I’m asking other people to try to avoid noting (in the upvote sense) approval of it unless they really mean it.
I am a moderator here. I have been contemplating removing this post for most of the time since I saw it. I am still indecisive. Feel free to comment here or PM me with your preferences.
What is our policy on politics?
unspoken. If I had to name it, I would be happy with, “can you talk about it elsewhere”.
In my opinion the LW policy is to steer away from politics when it obstructs discussion.
I wish I had a strong opinion to offer on this question. I think there are probably good arguments both for and against removing the post. I wish you luck in your difficult role.
I think object-level political discussion is undesirable for LW (at least at this time), but that’s quite tangential to this post, which is mostly about meta-level issues—and I consider these to be quite important. I think the post should stay.