I think the concept is that content is included from trusting volunteers who were told to expect Crocker’s Rules in the audience, and if you’re not willing to abide by that trust, you shouldn’t read.
If true, that (telling the volunteers to expect Crocker’s Rules in the audience) seems at worst disingenuous and at best unwarranted. Taken literally, it translates to:
“I promise that the audience which will read your writings will consist entirely of people who don’t get offended by anything you say, up to and including things almost universally considered to be directly and personally insulting.” (Because that’s what Crocker’s Rules are, yes?)
And in general I don’t think that “I have things to say, but I’m only going to say them to people who promise not to be offended by anything I say” is in the spirit of Crocker’s Rules. I also don’t think that it’s a good attitude to take, period.
Crocker emphasized, repeatedly, in Wikipedia discourse and elsewhere, that one could only adopt Crocker’s rules to apply to oneself, and could not impose them on a debate or forum with participants who had not opted-in explicitly to these rules, nor use them to exclude any participant.
So it sounds like the content can’t be posted under Crocker’s rules, because it’s unreasonable to unilaterally exempt oneself from all ordinary social norms of politeness, even when people (sort of) have the option not to read; and the content can’t be posted not under Crocker’s rules, because the authors were promised that if it were posted, it would be under Crocker’s rules. Maybe that means that if we’re serious about upholding norms, it means daenerys has torpedoed her own project by making a promise she couldn’t keep.
I think the concept is that content is included from trusting volunteers who were told to expect Crocker’s Rules in the audience, and if you’re not willing to abide by that trust, you shouldn’t read.
If true, that (telling the volunteers to expect Crocker’s Rules in the audience) seems at worst disingenuous and at best unwarranted. Taken literally, it translates to:
“I promise that the audience which will read your writings will consist entirely of people who don’t get offended by anything you say, up to and including things almost universally considered to be directly and personally insulting.” (Because that’s what Crocker’s Rules are, yes?)
And in general I don’t think that “I have things to say, but I’m only going to say them to people who promise not to be offended by anything I say” is in the spirit of Crocker’s Rules. I also don’t think that it’s a good attitude to take, period.
ETA (from http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Crocker’s_rules):
In this case, I feel like we can (and should) impose Crocker’s rules on these posts.
So it sounds like the content can’t be posted under Crocker’s rules, because it’s unreasonable to unilaterally exempt oneself from all ordinary social norms of politeness, even when people (sort of) have the option not to read; and the content can’t be posted not under Crocker’s rules, because the authors were promised that if it were posted, it would be under Crocker’s rules. Maybe that means that if we’re serious about upholding norms, it means daenerys has torpedoed her own project by making a promise she couldn’t keep.