I’ve had a bunch of moderation posts I’ve wanted to write for a while, and that should improve things.
This makes me a bit anxious. My inner story is that you’ll post various posts about moderation policy, intending them as “thinking aloud”, but many people will relate to them as official announcement since they come from a LW mod. I’ll then feel compelled to weigh in where I disagree and have a lengthy comment exchange trying to clarify the overall [incomplete] state of thinking of the team. And it’ll be exhausting and stressful. And I imagine it feeling unilateralist curse-y too, because in your mind it was fine to do and in my mind it wasn’t, but now I’m committed to this conversation when I’d have preferred a higher bandwidth, in-person one first.
I did intend them to be official announcements, and planned to make sure each team member saw them (as well as a number of non-team members) and had the space to disagree and talk through them.
I’m glad to hear you planned to run by the team before posting. I know you don’t mean to make them announcements, but my fear is that it might be very hard to make them not come across that way.
This makes me a bit anxious. My inner story is that you’ll post various posts about moderation policy, intending them as “thinking aloud”, but many people will relate to them as official announcement since they come from a LW mod. I’ll then feel compelled to weigh in where I disagree and have a lengthy comment exchange trying to clarify the overall [incomplete] state of thinking of the team. And it’ll be exhausting and stressful. And I imagine it feeling unilateralist curse-y too, because in your mind it was fine to do and in my mind it wasn’t, but now I’m committed to this conversation when I’d have preferred a higher bandwidth, in-person one first.
I did intend them to be official announcements, and planned to make sure each team member saw them (as well as a number of non-team members) and had the space to disagree and talk through them.
I’m glad to hear you planned to run by the team before posting. I know you don’t mean to make them announcements, but my fear is that it might be very hard to make them not come across that way.
To be clear, did you read that I said “did” in that sentence?