I am confused. The quotes I sent are quotes from DMs we sent to Gerald. Here they are again just for posterity:
You’ve been commenting fairly frequently, and my subjective impression as well as voting patterns suggest most people aren’t finding your comments sufficiently helpful.
And:
To conclude, the rate limit is your warning. Currently I feel your typical comments (even not downvoted) ones aren’t amazing, and now that we’re prioritizing raising standards due the dramatic rise in new users, we’re also getting tougher on contributions from established users that don’t feel like they’re meeting the bar either.
I think we have more but they are in DMs with just Raemon in it, but the above IMO clearly communicate “your current contributions are not breaking even”.
I think we have more but they are in DMs with just Raemon in it, but the above IMO clearly communicate “your current contributions are not breaking even”.
I didn’t draw that conclusion. Feel free to post in Raemon’s DMs.
Again what I am disappointed is ultimately this just seems to be a private fiefdom where you make decisions on a whim. Not altogether different from the new twitter come to think of it.
And that’s fine, and I don’t have to post here, that’s fine. I just feel super disappointed because I’m not seeing anything like rationality here in moderation, just tribalism and the normal outcomes of ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’. “A complex model that I can’t explain to anyone” is ultimately not scalable and frankly not really a very modern way to do it. It just simplifies to a gut feeling, and it cannot moderator better than the moderator’s own knowledge, which is where it fails on topics the moderators don’t actually understand.
You’ve been commenting fairly frequently, and my subjective impression as well as voting patterns suggest most people aren’t finding your comments sufficiently helpful.
I am confused. The quotes I sent are quotes from DMs we sent to Gerald. Here they are again just for posterity:
And:
I think we have more but they are in DMs with just Raemon in it, but the above IMO clearly communicate “your current contributions are not breaking even”.
ah. then indeed, I am in fact convinced.
I didn’t draw that conclusion. Feel free to post in Raemon’s DMs.
Again what I am disappointed is ultimately this just seems to be a private fiefdom where you make decisions on a whim. Not altogether different from the new twitter come to think of it.
And that’s fine, and I don’t have to post here, that’s fine. I just feel super disappointed because I’m not seeing anything like rationality here in moderation, just tribalism and the normal outcomes of ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’. “A complex model that I can’t explain to anyone” is ultimately not scalable and frankly not really a very modern way to do it. It just simplifies to a gut feeling, and it cannot moderator better than the moderator’s own knowledge, which is where it fails on topics the moderators don’t actually understand.
This was a form response used word for word to many others. Evidence: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cwRCsCXei2J2CmTxG/lw-account-restricted-ok-for-me-but-not-sure-about-lesswrong
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HShv7oSW23RWaiFmd/rate-limiting-as-a-mod-tool