Downvoted for bragging about trolling here—that’s not something I want to see encouraged.
It’s also a form of dishonesty to request public feedback on a policy issue, then systematically ignore all feedback that disagrees with your predetermined decision.
Come on, his “request for public feedback” was explicitly phrased as only asking for things he didn’t know:
In other words, the form of this discussion is not ‘Do you like this?’ - you probably have a different cost function from people who are held responsible for how LW looks as a whole—but rather, ‘Are there any predictable consequences we didn’t think of that you would like to point out, and possibly bet on with us if there’s a good way to settle the bet?’
… in other words, he was warning you that if all you do was whine about how “censorship” was a word with negative connotations, he was going to ignore you because he was well aware of that. Nothing dishonest there.
Downvoted for bragging about trolling here—that’s not something I want to see encouraged.
I was quite concerned about this myself, which is why I very intentionally created a separate troll thread (or “experimental thread”) within which to segregate my trolling from the main discussion thread, in order to avoid lowering the signal-to-noise ratio in the forum where substantive matters were being discussed.
By the time I entered phase 3 of the experiment (explicit trolling), the post had already been downvoted sufficiently that it was no longer appearing on “recent comments”.
Downvoted for bragging about trolling here—that’s not something I want to see encouraged.
Come on, his “request for public feedback” was explicitly phrased as only asking for things he didn’t know:
… in other words, he was warning you that if all you do was whine about how “censorship” was a word with negative connotations, he was going to ignore you because he was well aware of that. Nothing dishonest there.
I was quite concerned about this myself, which is why I very intentionally created a separate troll thread (or “experimental thread”) within which to segregate my trolling from the main discussion thread, in order to avoid lowering the signal-to-noise ratio in the forum where substantive matters were being discussed.
By the time I entered phase 3 of the experiment (explicit trolling), the post had already been downvoted sufficiently that it was no longer appearing on “recent comments”.
Trust me, I put a LOT of thought into this.