If I were NRx, I would feel very amused at the idea of LW people coming to believe that they need to invite an all-powerful dictator to save them from decay and ruin… :-D
LW has a BDFL already. He’s just not very interested and (many) people don’t believe he’s able to restore the website. We didn’t “come to believe” anything.
No, EY effectively doesn’t act as a BDFL. He doesn’t have the effective power to ban contributors. The last time I asked him to delete a post he said that he can’t for site political reasons.
The site is also owned by MIRI and not EY directly.
Lessee… He isn’t so much benevolent as he is absent. I don’t see him exercising any dictatorial powers and as to “for life”, we are clearly proposing that this ain’t so.
So it seems you’re just wrong. An “absentee owner/founder” is a better tag.
If I were NRx, I would feel very amused at the idea of LW people coming to believe that they need to invite an all-powerful dictator to save them from decay and ruin… :-D
What’s hilariously ironic is that our problem immigrants are Eugine’s sockpuppets, when Eugine is NRx and anti-immigrant.
That Eugine is so much of a problem is actually evidence in favour of some of his politics.
And when the dictator stops Eugine, it will also prove that Cthulhu always swims left.
(Meanwhile, in a different tribe: “So, they have a dictator now, and of course it’s a white male. That validates our beliefs!”)
Don’t forget that Cthulhu is a white male :-P
(race/sex are social constructs, aren’t they? Cthulhu is definitely not one of oppressed minorities so there you go)
You’re talking about someone using the easiest method of disruption available to individuals, combined with individual voter fraud.
This is difficult to stop because of the site’s code, which I think the single owner of the site chose.
LW has a BDFL already. He’s just not very interested and (many) people don’t believe he’s able to restore the website. We didn’t “come to believe” anything.
No, EY effectively doesn’t act as a BDFL. He doesn’t have the effective power to ban contributors. The last time I asked him to delete a post he said that he can’t for site political reasons.
The site is also owned by MIRI and not EY directly.
Lessee… He isn’t so much benevolent as he is absent. I don’t see him exercising any dictatorial powers and as to “for life”, we are clearly proposing that this ain’t so.
So it seems you’re just wrong. An “absentee owner/founder” is a better tag.