I apologize if I implied that the mods were routinely looking at private data without reason—I do, in fact, trust your intentions very deeply, and I’m sad when my skepticism about the ability to predict future value bleeds over into making your jobs harder.
I wonder if the missing feature might be a status for “post approval required”—if someone triggers your “probably a crackpot” intuition, rather than the only options being “ban” or “normal access” have a “watchlist” option, where posts and comments have a 60-minute delay before becoming visible (in addition to rate limiting). The only trustworthy evidence about future posts is the posts themselves—drafts or deleted things only show that they have NOT decided to post that.
Note that I don’t know how big a problem this is. I think that’s a great credit to the mods—you’re removing the truly bad before I notice it, and leaving some not-great-but-not-crackpot, which I think is about right. This makes it very hard for me to be confident in any opinions about whether you’re putting too much work into prior-censorship or not.
I apologize if I implied that the mods were routinely looking at private data without reason—I do, in fact, trust your intentions very deeply, and I’m sad when my skepticism about the ability to predict future value bleeds over into making your jobs harder.
I wonder if the missing feature might be a status for “post approval required”—if someone triggers your “probably a crackpot” intuition, rather than the only options being “ban” or “normal access” have a “watchlist” option, where posts and comments have a 60-minute delay before becoming visible (in addition to rate limiting). The only trustworthy evidence about future posts is the posts themselves—drafts or deleted things only show that they have NOT decided to post that.
Note that I don’t know how big a problem this is. I think that’s a great credit to the mods—you’re removing the truly bad before I notice it, and leaving some not-great-but-not-crackpot, which I think is about right. This makes it very hard for me to be confident in any opinions about whether you’re putting too much work into prior-censorship or not.