Rate limits are still very much an experiment. I’m hopeful that there’s an implementation that gets us a lot of value without much downside, but I think there are a lot ways to screw them up and do damage that I want to avoid. I’ve had the same thought 1/day (especially across for both posts and comments) is too little and stifles conversation.
I’m interested in alternative approaches to, e.g. the EA Forum has developed “your comments are automatically collapsed” as a moderation tool for users making less obviously good contributions, and I think that’s interesting.
Also, I’m sad whenever people look for an alternative place to post things. In my ideal (though likely unachievable) world, anyone could post anything to LessWrong and the site infrastructure would handle visibility perfectly so that things were only viewed by people wanted to see them (and in priority order of what they want to see). This would include poetry, personal, essays, etc. It’s just not a small project at all to achieve that, even though I wish it was just the case. Until then, we have to be more judicious with the users and content they create.
I’ll have a post up soon with more of my current thoughts and questions around moderation.
>Also, I’m sad whenever people look for an alternative place to post things. In my ideal (though likely unachievable) world, anyone could post anything to LessWrong and the site infrastructure would handle visibility perfectly so that things were only viewed by people wanted to see them (and in priority order of what they want to see).
This sounds nice but if taken far enough there’s a risk of fragmenting the site community into a bunch of partially overlapping sub-communities, a la the chaos of Twitter.
Rate limits are still very much an experiment. I’m hopeful that there’s an implementation that gets us a lot of value without much downside, but I think there are a lot ways to screw them up and do damage that I want to avoid. I’ve had the same thought 1/day (especially across for both posts and comments) is too little and stifles conversation.
I’m interested in alternative approaches to, e.g. the EA Forum has developed “your comments are automatically collapsed” as a moderation tool for users making less obviously good contributions, and I think that’s interesting.
Also, I’m sad whenever people look for an alternative place to post things. In my ideal (though likely unachievable) world, anyone could post anything to LessWrong and the site infrastructure would handle visibility perfectly so that things were only viewed by people wanted to see them (and in priority order of what they want to see). This would include poetry, personal, essays, etc. It’s just not a small project at all to achieve that, even though I wish it was just the case. Until then, we have to be more judicious with the users and content they create.
I’ll have a post up soon with more of my current thoughts and questions around moderation.
>Also, I’m sad whenever people look for an alternative place to post things. In my ideal (though likely unachievable) world, anyone could post anything to LessWrong and the site infrastructure would handle visibility perfectly so that things were only viewed by people wanted to see them (and in priority order of what they want to see).
This sounds nice but if taken far enough there’s a risk of fragmenting the site community into a bunch of partially overlapping sub-communities, a la the chaos of Twitter.