If Said seemed corrigible about actually integrating the spirit-of-our-models into his commenting style (such as proactively avoiding threads that benefit from a more open/curiosity/interpretative mode, without needing to wait for an author or mod to ban him from that post), then I’d be much more happy to just leave that as a high-level request from the mod team rather than an explicit code-based limitation.
I am a little worried that this is a generalization that doesn’t line up with actual evidence on the ground, and instead is caused by some sort of vibe spiral. (I’m reluctant to suggest a lengthy evidence review, both because of the costs and because I’m somewhat uncertain of the benefits—if the problem is that lots of authors find Said annoying or his reactions unpredictable, and we review the record and say “actually Said isn’t annoying”, those authors are unlikely to find it convincing.)
In particular, I keep thinking about this comment (noting that I might be updating too much on one example). I think we have evidence that “Said can engage with open/curious/interpretative topics/posts in a productive way”, and should maybe try to figure out what was different that time.
I am a little worried that this is a generalization that doesn’t line up with actual evidence on the ground, and instead is caused by some sort of vibe spiral. (I’m reluctant to suggest a lengthy evidence review, both because of the costs and because I’m somewhat uncertain of the benefits—if the problem is that lots of authors find Said annoying or his reactions unpredictable, and we review the record and say “actually Said isn’t annoying”, those authors are unlikely to find it convincing.)
In particular, I keep thinking about this comment (noting that I might be updating too much on one example). I think we have evidence that “Said can engage with open/curious/interpretative topics/posts in a productive way”, and should maybe try to figure out what was different that time.