Nixtaken, after discussing things with other mods, I’m banning you for 3 months. I think you have some interesting ideas and domain expertise and hope you can one day be a productive LessWrong user. But if you want to participate on our site, you will have to make peace with the fact that (sometimes critical) feedback and downvotes are a key part of the culture here.
I realize our culture here is fairly different from the rest of the internet. But LessWrong deliberately has several norms that aim to preserve a good space for discussing challenging ideas. Those norms are enforced with a meta-norm that people are encouraged to downvote things they feel are detracting from LessWrong.
I haven’t yet dug into the object level disagreement here, and I’m not 100% sure who’s factually correct. But you’ve repeatedly responded to arguments with indignation, accusations of bias and sockpuppeting, rather than engaging with the substance. It is pretty typical and expected on LessWrong to respond to that with downvoting. Several people have explained this feedback. Another moderator, Ben Pace, noted that you’d probably need to change your posting style significantly to get a different reception here.
After 3 months, you are welcome to try participating again on LessWrong, but if you do so know that you’ll be expected to respond to arguments with substance. If you’d like to return, I’d recommend reading other recent highly upvoted posts and comments to get a sense of what’s encouraged here, as well as reading through the sequences if you haven’t already.
Nixtaken, after discussing things with other mods, I’m banning you for 3 months. I think you have some interesting ideas and domain expertise and hope you can one day be a productive LessWrong user. But if you want to participate on our site, you will have to make peace with the fact that (sometimes critical) feedback and downvotes are a key part of the culture here.
I realize our culture here is fairly different from the rest of the internet. But LessWrong deliberately has several norms that aim to preserve a good space for discussing challenging ideas. Those norms are enforced with a meta-norm that people are encouraged to downvote things they feel are detracting from LessWrong.
I haven’t yet dug into the object level disagreement here, and I’m not 100% sure who’s factually correct. But you’ve repeatedly responded to arguments with indignation, accusations of bias and sockpuppeting, rather than engaging with the substance. It is pretty typical and expected on LessWrong to respond to that with downvoting. Several people have explained this feedback. Another moderator, Ben Pace, noted that you’d probably need to change your posting style significantly to get a different reception here.
After 3 months, you are welcome to try participating again on LessWrong, but if you do so know that you’ll be expected to respond to arguments with substance. If you’d like to return, I’d recommend reading other recent highly upvoted posts and comments to get a sense of what’s encouraged here, as well as reading through the sequences if you haven’t already.