Lord Voldemort is the villain of HPMOR, not the hero. His words are those of a snake.
My priorities in moderating this comment thread are to ① maintain a welcoming environment to people living in countries on all sides of this conflict and ②to cultivate productive discourse. My commenting guidelines are instrumental toward achieving the aforestated objectives.
Discussing what the US and Putin should or shouldn’t do (from a geopolitical perspective) is allowed. Discussing what the US and Putin do or don’t get criticized for is off-topic because every famous person and institution gets lots of unjustified criticism. It happens when you’re a saint. It happens when you’re a supervillain.
The way to keep criticism from poisoning your mind and turning you into Lord Voldemort is to speak in the positive. Criticizing others’ criticism is unproductive.
But my suspicion is that people like Mitchell feel obligated to blame the actions of Putin on the U.S., fundamentally, because they view the U.S. as their “slave nation”.
Mitchell has not used the phrase “slave nation”.
I’d like to keep this comment up @lsusr, so tell me if it’s too political for the thread.
I have already deleted one of your comments, not because it was political but because it was hateful.
I am hesitant to ban you from commenting on my posts because some of your comments have been very high quality. Alas, moderating your comments takes 100× the effort of moderating the average comment (which takes approximately zero effort). I am not a moderator and I do not want to become one. I will hold you to a higher bar than other commenters. If you write another comment that breaks the rules or which I feel is likely to lead to unproductive territory, I will ban you from commenting on my posts. This is your second warning. You will not get a third warning.
I will allow your comment to stay up. This conversation thread is now over.
Lord Voldemort is the villain of HPMOR, not the hero. His words are those of a snake.
My priorities in moderating this comment thread are to ① maintain a welcoming environment to people living in countries on all sides of this conflict and ②to cultivate productive discourse. My commenting guidelines are instrumental toward achieving the aforestated objectives.
Discussing what the US and Putin should or shouldn’t do (from a geopolitical perspective) is allowed. Discussing what the US and Putin do or don’t get criticized for is off-topic because every famous person and institution gets lots of unjustified criticism. It happens when you’re a saint. It happens when you’re a supervillain.
The way to keep criticism from poisoning your mind and turning you into Lord Voldemort is to speak in the positive. Criticizing others’ criticism is unproductive.
Mitchell has not used the phrase “slave nation”.
I have already deleted one of your comments, not because it was political but because it was hateful.
I am hesitant to ban you from commenting on my posts because some of your comments have been very high quality. Alas, moderating your comments takes 100× the effort of moderating the average comment (which takes approximately zero effort). I am not a moderator and I do not want to become one. I will hold you to a higher bar than other commenters. If you write another comment that breaks the rules or which I feel is likely to lead to unproductive territory, I will ban you from commenting on my posts. This is your second warning. You will not get a third warning.
I will allow your comment to stay up. This conversation thread is now over.
(speaking as a LW mod, I super appreciate lsuser putting the time into moderating their posts on a tricky topic)