Eww. Author-controlled limits are horrifically exclusionary—if you’re not in my club, I don’t want to acknowledge that you’re on the site. IMO, If you don’t want it visible to the world (including /r/sneerclub and your local government), you probably shouldn’t publish it on an open forum. And LW should remain an open forum.
Perhaps for some topics, you’d prefer to discuss in a closed forum, or a non-forum where it can be end-to-end encrypted rather than just hard-to-discover, or in-person where it’s very hard to record or reference later. That’s fine—some things shouldn’t be said publicly.
Note that you CAN get some of this by sharing a draft with specified people. I very much hope it’s not common to do so and never end up with a publishable version.
Eww. Author-controlled limits are horrifically exclusionary—if you’re not in my club, I don’t want to acknowledge that you’re on the site. IMO, If you don’t want it visible to the world (including /r/sneerclub and your local government), you probably shouldn’t publish it on an open forum. And LW should remain an open forum.
Perhaps for some topics, you’d prefer to discuss in a closed forum, or a non-forum where it can be end-to-end encrypted rather than just hard-to-discover, or in-person where it’s very hard to record or reference later. That’s fine—some things shouldn’t be said publicly.
Note that you CAN get some of this by sharing a draft with specified people. I very much hope it’s not common to do so and never end up with a publishable version.