I dunno man. If I imagine someone who’s sort of peripheral to EA but knows a lot about X, and they see EA org-X doing silly stuff with X, and they write a detailed post, only to have it downvoted due to the norm… I expect that to cut off useful information far more than prevent {misconceptions among people who would have otherwise had usefully true and detailed models}.
I agree that would be pretty bad. This is a norm I’m pushing for people within the EA community, though, and I don’t think we should be applying it to external criticism? For example, when a Swedish newspaper reported that FLI had committed to fund a pro-nazi group this was cross-posted to the forum. I don’t think downvoting that discussion on the basis that FLI hadn’t had a chance to respond yet would have been reasonable at all.
I also don’t think downvoting is a good way of handling violations of this norm. Instead I want to build the norm positively, by people including at the ends of their posts “I sent a draft to org for review” and orgs saying “thanks for giving us time to prepare a response” in their responses. To the extent that there’s any negative enforcement I like Jason’s suggestion, that posts where the subject didn’t get advance notice could get a pinned mod comment.
I dunno man. If I imagine someone who’s sort of peripheral to EA but knows a lot about X, and they see EA org-X doing silly stuff with X, and they write a detailed post, only to have it downvoted due to the norm… I expect that to cut off useful information far more than prevent {misconceptions among people who would have otherwise had usefully true and detailed models}.
I agree that would be pretty bad. This is a norm I’m pushing for people within the EA community, though, and I don’t think we should be applying it to external criticism? For example, when a Swedish newspaper reported that FLI had committed to fund a pro-nazi group this was cross-posted to the forum. I don’t think downvoting that discussion on the basis that FLI hadn’t had a chance to respond yet would have been reasonable at all.
I also don’t think downvoting is a good way of handling violations of this norm. Instead I want to build the norm positively, by people including at the ends of their posts “I sent a draft to org for review” and orgs saying “thanks for giving us time to prepare a response” in their responses. To the extent that there’s any negative enforcement I like Jason’s suggestion, that posts where the subject didn’t get advance notice could get a pinned mod comment.