I wish the LW team would prioritize thinking about how to enable such discussions to happen more safely on LW
One way to do this would be to create a tag for socially risky topics, and make posts marked as such visible only when logged in, to accounts that have existed for more than ‘t’ time with at least ‘k’ of karma. The original poster would be able to add the tag to their own post, but not remove it unless they themselves meet the minimum ‘tk’ threshold. Others would be able to add or remove it only if they themselves have those same stats. And comments made under a topic thus marked would by default inherit the same tag and properties. This would make it possible to have such conversations with little risk, with further improvements possible.
This sounds like an extension of how mindkilling topics like politics are (with a few reasonable exceptions like Zvi’s series on COVID) already restricted to blogposts. It has the advantage of keeping things controlled without shutting down conversation entirely. It has the disadvantage of adding complexity.
I think your proposal is good enough to be worth considering or possibly iterating upon.
One way to do this would be to create a tag for socially risky topics, and make posts marked as such visible only when logged in, to accounts that have existed for more than ‘t’ time with at least ‘k’ of karma. The original poster would be able to add the tag to their own post, but not remove it unless they themselves meet the minimum ‘tk’ threshold. Others would be able to add or remove it only if they themselves have those same stats. And comments made under a topic thus marked would by default inherit the same tag and properties. This would make it possible to have such conversations with little risk, with further improvements possible.
This sounds like an extension of how mindkilling topics like politics are (with a few reasonable exceptions like Zvi’s series on COVID) already restricted to blogposts. It has the advantage of keeping things controlled without shutting down conversation entirely. It has the disadvantage of adding complexity.
I think your proposal is good enough to be worth considering or possibly iterating upon.