I just wanted to make sure it was a considered decision on wedrifid’s part to push Dmytry to leave, and not just an emotional reaction.
Considered and strategic but not committed to and considered without awareness of your degree of personal interest. In such a circumstance if I knew there was someone with a particular interest in working with a (shall we call them ‘candidate’?) I would stand back and refrain from replying or interacting with the candidate except in those circumstances where they are directly hampering the contributions of others.
When it comes to handling such situations better in the future it occurs to me that the material you have written already in your various comments here would make a decent post (“How to be a productive contrarian?”). If that were available as a post then when when the next guy came along and started saying “You guys disagree with me therefore you are all a bunch of brainwashed group thinking fools” we could fog and say “It’s true, there is plenty of group think on lesswrong. Wei_Dai wrote this post on how he manages it.” That would be equally as true as the response “You’re actually getting downvoted because you’re wrong and acting like a dick. STFU.” but far more useful!
In fact, your advice (including what to do instead of worrying about ‘fairness’) generalizes well to dealing with new challenging social situations of all kinds.
Considered and strategic but not committed to and considered without awareness of your degree of personal interest. In such a circumstance if I knew there was someone with a particular interest in working with a (shall we call them ‘candidate’?) I would stand back and refrain from replying or interacting with the candidate except in those circumstances where they are directly hampering the contributions of others.
When it comes to handling such situations better in the future it occurs to me that the material you have written already in your various comments here would make a decent post (“How to be a productive contrarian?”). If that were available as a post then when when the next guy came along and started saying “You guys disagree with me therefore you are all a bunch of brainwashed group thinking fools” we could fog and say “It’s true, there is plenty of group think on lesswrong. Wei_Dai wrote this post on how he manages it.” That would be equally as true as the response “You’re actually getting downvoted because you’re wrong and acting like a dick. STFU.” but far more useful!
In fact, your advice (including what to do instead of worrying about ‘fairness’) generalizes well to dealing with new challenging social situations of all kinds.