I guess other forums don’t literally have a good faith defence, but in practice they mostly only ban people who deliberately refuse to follow the rules/advice they’re told about, or personally insult others repeatedly.
I feel like I have encountered fora that had genuinely more active moderation norms. There’s a lot of personal discord servers I can think of with the same rough approach as a dinner party. There are reddit threads
Also, uh, I notice the juxtaposition of “I’ve been banned from other places, hence this attitude” and “in practice [other forums] mostly only ban people who deliberately refuse to follow the rules/advice they’re told about, or personally insult others repeatedly” implies you either refuse to follow rules/advice or that you insult others repeatedly. Obviously you said most cases, not all cases.
In the basketball practice example, if it was magically possible to let the lousy shots continue playing with each other at very low cost, almost every coach would allow it. They would only remove people who have bad faith.
Well, yes, and I’ve never heard of a coach saying someone wasn’t allowed to play basketball anywhere. At least where I live, there’s a public court about a ten minute bike ride away and basketballs are cheap. If, say, I’m a student on a college basketball team whose coach asked me to stop doing layups during his practices, I can even use the exact same court later when the team isn’t practicing. The equivalent for LessWrong is, I believe, saying you’re welcome to continue communicating on the internet but that it will happen on some other forum.
Your average basketball coach doesn’t only remove people with bad faith, they also bench people or cut them from the team for not being good at basketball. That’s quite common.
Let’s just think about the pros and cons of picking another forum, vs. continuing to comment on LessWrong, but only being visible by others who choose to see you.
Picking another forum:
They fit better in other forums than LessWrong. For most rate-limited users, this is true, but they can go to other forums on their own without being forced.
Less need for LessWrong to write code and increase bandwidth to accommodate them.
Less chance they say really bad things (neoreactionary content) which worsens the reputation of LessWrong? This doesn’t apply to most rate-limited users.
Continuing to comment but only visible to those interested:
They get to discuss the posts and topics they find engaging to talk about.
They don’t feel upset at LessWrong and the rationalist community.
I think whether it’s worth it depends on how hard it is to write the code for them.
I feel like I have encountered fora that had genuinely more active moderation norms. There’s a lot of personal discord servers I can think of with the same rough approach as a dinner party. There are reddit threads
Also, uh, I notice the juxtaposition of “I’ve been banned from other places, hence this attitude” and “in practice [other forums] mostly only ban people who deliberately refuse to follow the rules/advice they’re told about, or personally insult others repeatedly” implies you either refuse to follow rules/advice or that you insult others repeatedly. Obviously you said most cases, not all cases.
Well, yes, and I’ve never heard of a coach saying someone wasn’t allowed to play basketball anywhere. At least where I live, there’s a public court about a ten minute bike ride away and basketballs are cheap. If, say, I’m a student on a college basketball team whose coach asked me to stop doing layups during his practices, I can even use the exact same court later when the team isn’t practicing. The equivalent for LessWrong is, I believe, saying you’re welcome to continue communicating on the internet but that it will happen on some other forum.
Your average basketball coach doesn’t only remove people with bad faith, they also bench people or cut them from the team for not being good at basketball. That’s quite common.
Let’s just think about the pros and cons of picking another forum, vs. continuing to comment on LessWrong, but only being visible by others who choose to see you.
Picking another forum:
They fit better in other forums than LessWrong. For most rate-limited users, this is true, but they can go to other forums on their own without being forced.
Less need for LessWrong to write code and increase bandwidth to accommodate them.
Less chance they say really bad things (neoreactionary content) which worsens the reputation of LessWrong? This doesn’t apply to most rate-limited users.
Continuing to comment but only visible to those interested:
They get to discuss the posts and topics they find engaging to talk about.
They don’t feel upset at LessWrong and the rationalist community.
I think whether it’s worth it depends on how hard it is to write the code for them.