I’m a big believer in social incompatibility. Some people just don’t click! It’s probably not inherently impossible to navigate but it’s almost never worth the trouble. Duncan shouldn’t have to interact with Said if he doesn’t want to.
Yup, I strongly agree with this.
And it seems to me that the effort spent moderating this is mostly going to be consequential for Duncan and Said’s future interactions instead of generalizing and being consequential to the interactions between other people on LessWrong, because these sorts of conflicts seem to be quite infrequent. If so, it doesn’t seem worth spending too much time on.
Maybe as a path forward, Duncan and Said can agree to keep exchanges to a maximum of 10 total comments and subsequently move the conversation to a private DM, see if that works, and if it doesn’t re-evaluate from there?
Yup, I strongly agree with this.
And it seems to me that the effort spent moderating this is mostly going to be consequential for Duncan and Said’s future interactions instead of generalizing and being consequential to the interactions between other people on LessWrong, because these sorts of conflicts seem to be quite infrequent. If so, it doesn’t seem worth spending too much time on.
Maybe as a path forward, Duncan and Said can agree to keep exchanges to a maximum of 10 total comments and subsequently move the conversation to a private DM, see if that works, and if it doesn’t re-evaluate from there?