I’ve been busy, so hadn’t replied to this yet, but specifically wanted to apologize for the hostile paraphrase (I notice I’ve done that at least twice now in this thread, I’m trying to better but seems important for me to notice and pay attention to).
I think I the corrigible about actually integrating the spirit-of-our-models into his commenting style” line pretty badly, Oliver and Vaniver also both thought it was pretty alarming. The thing I was trying to say I eventually reworded in my subsequent mod announcement as:
Feel free to argue with this decision. And again, in particular, if Said makes a case that he either can obey the spirit of “don’t imply people have an obligation to engage with your comments”, or someone can suggest a letter-of-the-law that actually accomplishes the thing I’m aiming at in a more clear-cut way that Said thinks he can follow, I’d feel fairly good about revoking the rate-limit.
i.e. this isn’t about Said changing this own thought process, but, like, there is a spirit-of-the-law relevant in the mod decision here, and whether I need to worry about specification-gaming.
I expect you to still object to that for various reasons, and I think it’s reasonable to be pretty suspicious of me for phrasing it the way I did the first time. (I think it does convey something sus about my thought process, but, fwiw I agree it is sus and am reflecting on it)
Feel free to argue with this decision. And again, in particular, if Said makes a case that he either can obey the spirit of “don’t imply people have an obligation to engage with your comments”, or someone can suggest a letter-of-the-law that actually accomplishes the thing I’m aiming at in a more clear-cut way that Said thinks he can follow, I’d feel fairly good about revoking the rate-limit.
I’ve been busy, so hadn’t replied to this yet, but specifically wanted to apologize for the hostile paraphrase (I notice I’ve done that at least twice now in this thread, I’m trying to better but seems important for me to notice and pay attention to).
I think I the corrigible about actually integrating the spirit-of-our-models into his commenting style” line pretty badly, Oliver and Vaniver also both thought it was pretty alarming. The thing I was trying to say I eventually reworded in my subsequent mod announcement as:
i.e. this isn’t about Said changing this own thought process, but, like, there is a spirit-of-the-law relevant in the mod decision here, and whether I need to worry about specification-gaming.
I expect you to still object to that for various reasons, and I think it’s reasonable to be pretty suspicious of me for phrasing it the way I did the first time. (I think it does convey something sus about my thought process, but, fwiw I agree it is sus and am reflecting on it)
FYI, my response to this is is waiting for an answer to my question in the first paragraph of this comment.