Just to clarify, if only Eliezer had requested stronger moderation capabilities, we would have not built stronger moderation capabilities. The problem of LessWrong being a place that feels hostile to a lot of historical top-contributors, and to a lot of potentially new top-contributors is a major one that has been on my radar since I started the whole LW 2.0 project.
So while people are obviously open to have their own models of why the LW2 team is doing various things, the reasoning presented here does not resonate with me, and does not seem to reflect my internal experience of making this decision.
This is all fair enough, but to clarify, my comment was aimed only at the notion that the goal of “get Eliezer to use the site” has been achieved, not whether it was the only goal, or anything else.
Just to clarify, if only Eliezer had requested stronger moderation capabilities, we would have not built stronger moderation capabilities. The problem of LessWrong being a place that feels hostile to a lot of historical top-contributors, and to a lot of potentially new top-contributors is a major one that has been on my radar since I started the whole LW 2.0 project.
So while people are obviously open to have their own models of why the LW2 team is doing various things, the reasoning presented here does not resonate with me, and does not seem to reflect my internal experience of making this decision.
This is all fair enough, but to clarify, my comment was aimed only at the notion that the goal of “get Eliezer to use the site” has been achieved, not whether it was the only goal, or anything else.
You are wrong about your own motivations in a way trivially predictable by monkey dynamics.