How frequent are moderation actions? Is this discussion about saving moderator effort (by banning someone before you have to remove the rate-limited quantity of their bad posts), or something else? I really worry about “quality improvement by prior restraint”—both because low-value posts aren’t that harmful, they get downvoted and ignored pretty easily, and because it can take YEARS of trial-and-error for someone to become a good participant in LW-style discussions, and I don’t want to make it impossible for the true newbies (young people discovering this style for the first time) to try, fail, learn, try, fail, get frustrated, go away, come back, and be slightly-above-neutral for a bit before really hitting their stride.
I agree with Dagon here.
Six years ago after discovering HPMOR and reading part (most?) of the Sequences, I was a bad participant in old LW and rationalist subreddits.
I would probably have been quickly banned on current LW.
It really just takes a while for people new to LW like norms to adjust.
I agree with Dagon here.
Six years ago after discovering HPMOR and reading part (most?) of the Sequences, I was a bad participant in old LW and rationalist subreddits.
I would probably have been quickly banned on current LW.
It really just takes a while for people new to LW like norms to adjust.