Just to encourage you, I want to put things in context:
This is one person that significantly destroys the social capital of the LW community. And in our community, social capital is scarce.
They probably do this to promote their political views; to silence perceived political opponents. (Including new users.) This is completely against LW values.
If you’d just block their account without further notice right now, I would say: “Well done!”. It is extremely generous to give them a chance to explain themselves; and there probably is no good explanation anyway, so it’s just playing for time.
I mean, really, if one person keeps terrorizing the community, and the community is unwilling to defend themselves, then all the lessons about how rationalists are supposed to win have failed.
A person who did so much damage does not deserve a second chance. If you decide to give them the second chance, I won’t complain. But I would complain against inaction while they continue to do more damage. If you are the only person who has an access to the “Ban User” button, just press it already, before everyone leaves.
EDIT: This whole thread (and it is far from being the first one) is additional damage caused by a single person. People keep proposing solutions without evidence, then they argue with each other. There is a growing frustration when they realize that most of the proposed changes won’t get implemented anyway (either because other people oppose it, or because making changes to LW codebase always takes a lot of time). We keep generating negative emotions, because… why exactly?
I mean, really, if one person keeps terrorizing the community, and the community is unwilling to defend themselves, then all the lessons about how rationalists are supposed to win have failed.
I agree, Rationalists should win! And in this case, winning doesn’t mean turning into straw-man Vulcans who say “you shouldn’t have any emotional reactions to people mass downvoting you” as I see a couple other places in this thread. Rather, it means that we should be able to design a community system that makes everyone feel cared for, and also provides them useful feedback for how they should or shouldn’t post things.
Emotions matter, and making people feel valued and loved by other members is how a community thrives. (Thats why religions can do so well even though they make silly claims about the nature of reality).
Just to encourage you, I want to put things in context:
This is one person that significantly destroys the social capital of the LW community. And in our community, social capital is scarce.
They probably do this to promote their political views; to silence perceived political opponents. (Including new users.) This is completely against LW values.
If you’d just block their account without further notice right now, I would say: “Well done!”. It is extremely generous to give them a chance to explain themselves; and there probably is no good explanation anyway, so it’s just playing for time.
I mean, really, if one person keeps terrorizing the community, and the community is unwilling to defend themselves, then all the lessons about how rationalists are supposed to win have failed.
A person who did so much damage does not deserve a second chance. If you decide to give them the second chance, I won’t complain. But I would complain against inaction while they continue to do more damage. If you are the only person who has an access to the “Ban User” button, just press it already, before everyone leaves.
EDIT: This whole thread (and it is far from being the first one) is additional damage caused by a single person. People keep proposing solutions without evidence, then they argue with each other. There is a growing frustration when they realize that most of the proposed changes won’t get implemented anyway (either because other people oppose it, or because making changes to LW codebase always takes a lot of time). We keep generating negative emotions, because… why exactly?
I agree, Rationalists should win! And in this case, winning doesn’t mean turning into straw-man Vulcans who say “you shouldn’t have any emotional reactions to people mass downvoting you” as I see a couple other places in this thread. Rather, it means that we should be able to design a community system that makes everyone feel cared for, and also provides them useful feedback for how they should or shouldn’t post things.
Emotions matter, and making people feel valued and loved by other members is how a community thrives. (Thats why religions can do so well even though they make silly claims about the nature of reality).