Moderation styles harsher than “Easy-going” are toxic to group rationality and failure to ban them results in an echo chamber. Banning users from commenting on your post(s) is toxic to group rationality and results in an echo chamber. Deleting comments without a trace, likewise. It is absolutely essential that anyone who is silencing people they don’t want to hear from must take significant effort to do so and that these actions must be extremely visible to everyone else, or else there is no way to note and shame people who abuse it. And virtually everyone who has this power and has social power will abuse it, whether they realize that’s what they’re doing or not.
Which policies in particular?
Literally everything described here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/adk5xv5Q4hjvpEhhh/meta-new-moderation-tools-and-moderation-guidelines
Moderation styles harsher than “Easy-going” are toxic to group rationality and failure to ban them results in an echo chamber. Banning users from commenting on your post(s) is toxic to group rationality and results in an echo chamber. Deleting comments without a trace, likewise. It is absolutely essential that anyone who is silencing people they don’t want to hear from must take significant effort to do so and that these actions must be extremely visible to everyone else, or else there is no way to note and shame people who abuse it. And virtually everyone who has this power and has social power will abuse it, whether they realize that’s what they’re doing or not.