(1) There’s at least as strong of a social incentive on LW to respond fairly to criticism and disagreement rather than delete things outright. I noticed, for example, that I expected to (and did) get lots of karma from responding to your doomsaying on the moderation threads and would have mildly preferred to continue the conversation instead of just deleting your comments, had I had the power. Strengthening and bulletproofing these social incentives seems to me to be the correct solution to this Hamming problem.
(2) The moderation changes are experimental, not set in stone, and given how well LW2.0 has been doing so far in such a miniscule length of time, we should give the team time to notice errors and correct them.
(3) For all practical purposes LW is under “Reign of Terror” moderation by the current mod team. I’m curious what your crux is for believing individual authors will be significantly more brutal about the job than the mod team is; that’s opposite of what I would expect.
The social incentives favor authors doing it more, and are ambivalent for the mods. Though I don’t trust them either, particularly after such a massive failure of judgment as proposing this change.
I think you’re ignoring a bunch of things:
(1) There’s at least as strong of a social incentive on LW to respond fairly to criticism and disagreement rather than delete things outright. I noticed, for example, that I expected to (and did) get lots of karma from responding to your doomsaying on the moderation threads and would have mildly preferred to continue the conversation instead of just deleting your comments, had I had the power. Strengthening and bulletproofing these social incentives seems to me to be the correct solution to this Hamming problem.
(2) The moderation changes are experimental, not set in stone, and given how well LW2.0 has been doing so far in such a miniscule length of time, we should give the team time to notice errors and correct them.
(3) For all practical purposes LW is under “Reign of Terror” moderation by the current mod team. I’m curious what your crux is for believing individual authors will be significantly more brutal about the job than the mod team is; that’s opposite of what I would expect.
The social incentives favor authors doing it more, and are ambivalent for the mods. Though I don’t trust them either, particularly after such a massive failure of judgment as proposing this change.