If you have 1 prolific person making comments every day that have to be moderated, the solution isn’t to delete those comments every day but to start by attempting to teach the person and ban the person if that attempt at teaching doesn’t work.
Currently, the moderation decisions aren’t only about moderators not responding to unresponded bad comments but moderators going further and forbidding other people from commenting on the relevant posts and explaining why they shouldn’t be there.
Karma votes and collapsing comments that get negative karma is a way to allow them to have less effect on good conversations. It’s the way quality norms got enforced on the old LessWrong. I think that the cases where that didn’t work are relatively few and that those call for engagement where there’s first an attempt to teach the person and the person is banned when that doesn’t work.
(I’m speaking here about contributions made in good faith. I don’t think moderating decisions to delete SPAM by new users needs explaining)
If you have 1 prolific person making comments every day that have to be moderated, the solution isn’t to delete those comments every day but to start by attempting to teach the person and ban the person if that attempt at teaching doesn’t work.
Currently, the moderation decisions aren’t only about moderators not responding to unresponded bad comments but moderators going further and forbidding other people from commenting on the relevant posts and explaining why they shouldn’t be there.
Karma votes and collapsing comments that get negative karma is a way to allow them to have less effect on good conversations. It’s the way quality norms got enforced on the old LessWrong. I think that the cases where that didn’t work are relatively few and that those call for engagement where there’s first an attempt to teach the person and the person is banned when that doesn’t work.
(I’m speaking here about contributions made in good faith. I don’t think moderating decisions to delete SPAM by new users needs explaining)