A background model I want to put out here: two frames that feel relevant to me here are “harm minimization” and “taxing”. I think the behavior Said does has unacceptably large costs in aggregate (and, perhaps to remind/clarify, I think a similar-in-some-ways set of behaviors I’ve seen Duncan do also would have unacceptably large costs in aggregate).
And the three solutions I’d consider here, at some level of abstraction, are:
So-and-so agrees to stop doing the behavior (harder when the behavior is subtle and multifaceted, but, doable in principle)
Moderators restrict the user such that they can’t do the behavior to unacceptable degrees
Moderators tax the behavior such that doing-too-much-of-it is harder overall (but, it’s still something of the user’s choice if they want to do more of it and pay more tax).
All three options seem reasonable to me apriori, it’s mostly a question of “is there a good way to implement them?”. The current rate-limit-proposal for Said is mostly option 2. All else being equal I’d probably prefer option 3, but the options I can think of seem harder to implement and dev-time for this sort of thing is not unlimited.
A background model I want to put out here: two frames that feel relevant to me here are “harm minimization” and “taxing”. I think the behavior Said does has unacceptably large costs in aggregate (and, perhaps to remind/clarify, I think a similar-in-some-ways set of behaviors I’ve seen Duncan do also would have unacceptably large costs in aggregate).
And the three solutions I’d consider here, at some level of abstraction, are:
So-and-so agrees to stop doing the behavior (harder when the behavior is subtle and multifaceted, but, doable in principle)
Moderators restrict the user such that they can’t do the behavior to unacceptable degrees
Moderators tax the behavior such that doing-too-much-of-it is harder overall (but, it’s still something of the user’s choice if they want to do more of it and pay more tax).
All three options seem reasonable to me apriori, it’s mostly a question of “is there a good way to implement them?”. The current rate-limit-proposal for Said is mostly option 2. All else being equal I’d probably prefer option 3, but the options I can think of seem harder to implement and dev-time for this sort of thing is not unlimited.