So it is, thanks for pointing this out. I’ve even seen this before, but since forgot to the point of not being aware of this existing when writing my comment. From the way Duncan phrased his reply he either also wasn’t aware of this, or there is a way of banning users privately as opposed to publicly, so that these decisions don’t show up on that page.
This is exactly the kind of situation I meant to rule out by saying that the list of banned users should be directly accessible from each affected post, as something you don’t need to search for.
Yes, sure, if you’re going to allow people to ban users from their posts, the list of these banned users should be prominently displayed on each post. But this is a fairly weak mitigation. Much better to not have the feature in the first place.
Isn’t this info visible at https://www.lesswrong.com/moderation ?
So it is, thanks for pointing this out. I’ve even seen this before, but since forgot to the point of not being aware of this existing when writing my comment. From the way Duncan phrased his reply he either also wasn’t aware of this, or there is a way of banning users privately as opposed to publicly, so that these decisions don’t show up on that page.
This is exactly the kind of situation I meant to rule out by saying that the list of banned users should be directly accessible from each affected post, as something you don’t need to search for.
(I was not aware but also am fortunately not ashamed of my blocks, so)
Yes, sure, if you’re going to allow people to ban users from their posts, the list of these banned users should be prominently displayed on each post. But this is a fairly weak mitigation. Much better to not have the feature in the first place.