Idea: at the bottom of the post the author could add “[Moderation policy: please be gentle]” or “[Moderation policy: fight me]”, etc. Then other users/moderators would downvote/delete any comments that violate the policy. This is in response to
multiple top authors telling me that they prefer not to publish on LessWrong because they expect the comments to be overly aggressive and needlessly critical.
If some authors are more sensitive than others, they should be able to say so. On the other hand, I think that needlessly critical comments are important to my experience of LW and I much prefer them to no comments at all. Another benefit is that this costs nothing. If this would work, then maybe it could be implemented as a feature.
Although, there remains a question about what the default policy should be.
Idea: at the bottom of the post the author could add “[Moderation policy: please be gentle]” or “[Moderation policy: fight me]”, etc. Then other users/moderators would downvote/delete any comments that violate the policy. This is in response to
If some authors are more sensitive than others, they should be able to say so. On the other hand, I think that needlessly critical comments are important to my experience of LW and I much prefer them to no comments at all. Another benefit is that this costs nothing. If this would work, then maybe it could be implemented as a feature.
Although, there remains a question about what the default policy should be.