This sounds like it’s pretty well captured by current Petrov Day ritual, yeah, though I feel like it only being the front page rather than all of LW makes it feel much less serious.
I mean, I think taking all of LessWrong down would be a bit of a dick move. Like, the frontpage is what matters most to the people who participate and is a resource that feels fair and reasonably to destroy, because it being down mostly just costs the people who participate in the ritual.
But I feel like as a developer on LessWrong I have a pretty serious responsibility to be a good shepherd of content, and to make sure that you can reliably link to LessWrong content, and that you can reliably read the sequences, without it breaking. Most of the people who read that content aren’t regular users, they are people who got linked here from some other blogpost on the internet, and I don’t want to externalize our bad decisions into giving them a bad experience.
I think in general, I wouldn’t want to run rituals like this that randomly damage some public infrastructure. Like, I wouldn’t want to make it so that when someone presses a button, we barricade a random road in Berkeley. Making all the content on LessWrong inaccessible feels similar to that. It’s not my right to remove people’s access to that.
I mean, I think taking all of LessWrong down would be a bit of a dick move. Like, the frontpage is what matters most to the people who participate and is a resource that feels fair and reasonably to destroy, because it being down mostly just costs the people who participate in the ritual.
But I feel like as a developer on LessWrong I have a pretty serious responsibility to be a good shepherd of content, and to make sure that you can reliably link to LessWrong content, and that you can reliably read the sequences, without it breaking. Most of the people who read that content aren’t regular users, they are people who got linked here from some other blogpost on the internet, and I don’t want to externalize our bad decisions into giving them a bad experience.
I think in general, I wouldn’t want to run rituals like this that randomly damage some public infrastructure. Like, I wouldn’t want to make it so that when someone presses a button, we barricade a random road in Berkeley. Making all the content on LessWrong inaccessible feels similar to that. It’s not my right to remove people’s access to that.