I haven’t down-voted. The amount number of private messages that get sent on LessWrong seems to be quite low.
For most topics, it makes sense to ask a question publically, but there are messages that are personalized enough that private messages make sense. I wouldn’t like to have a public norm that forbids messages like “I really like what you wrote on X, can I hire you to research Y and write a post about it”. When it comes to telling someone about typos in their post a private message is usually better than a comment.
A net negative karma score suggests to me that a majority believes that your proposed policy is too strict.
I haven’t down-voted. The amount number of private messages that get sent on LessWrong seems to be quite low.
For most topics, it makes sense to ask a question publically, but there are messages that are personalized enough that private messages make sense. I wouldn’t like to have a public norm that forbids messages like “I really like what you wrote on X, can I hire you to research Y and write a post about it”. When it comes to telling someone about typos in their post a private message is usually better than a comment.
A net negative karma score suggests to me that a majority believes that your proposed policy is too strict.