I’m very sorry but while I am sympathetic to your viewpoint and arguments, I feel your manner of communication (axe-grindy extremely inappropriately long comments on posts not quite relevant posts, this here comment even lapsing in German without explanation) is not a good fit for LessWrong. After chatting with Raemon, we feel it better if you weren’t on LessWrong and I am regrettably disabling your ability to post and comment. Our experience with other users who had similar commenting patterns is that improvements are unlikely, so I do feel it’s best not to drag things out and go for the full disabling. (Sorry about doing this in public – I like to be transparent about mod actions.
[I appreciate you and the team putting in the work to keep LW a good place, and don’t want to make it a thing where any mod action is met with “well you should have done this other more arduous thing”.]
Maybe there’s a “simple” fix that adds a “small” amount of moderator effort, and gives people like Bernd a bit more of a shot? The thing that comes to mind is: add an additional status between banned and and not banned, which is “restricted”. Then make a few “simple” changes to the behavior of restricted accounts. Maybe there’s one or a few that would direct better-suited behavior without further mod action. E.g.: restricted accounts can’t post comments greater than X thousand characters. E.g. restricted accounts can’t post more than X times in an hour.
[I appreciate your preamble. Thank you for the feedback and suggestion! Appreciated.]
We’ve actually just recently built “rate limits” for accounts as actually something in-between no action and banning. I have a draft post about our moderation philosoph and approach I want to get out in the next few days.
In this case I felt that it was better to skip the intermediary steps though, just going on experience with different types of users and likely outcomes.
I’m sad to see him go. I don’t know enough about LWs history and have too little experience with forum moderation to agree or disagree with your decision. Though LW had been around for a very long time without imploding so that’s evidence you guys know what you’re doing.
Please don’t take down his post though. I believe somewhere in there is a good faith opinion at odds with my own. I want to read and understand it. Just not ready for this much reading tonight.
I wish I could write so prolifically! Or maybe it’s a curse rather than a blessing because then it becomes an obstacle to people understanding your point of view.
I am a bit sad too. You might be reassured to know that we are generally very reluctant to remove content once posted and practically never do so excepting spam, even if we didn’t think it was great content.
Hi Bernd,
I’m very sorry but while I am sympathetic to your viewpoint and arguments, I feel your manner of communication (axe-grindy extremely inappropriately long comments on posts not quite relevant posts, this here comment even lapsing in German without explanation) is not a good fit for LessWrong. After chatting with Raemon, we feel it better if you weren’t on LessWrong and I am regrettably disabling your ability to post and comment. Our experience with other users who had similar commenting patterns is that improvements are unlikely, so I do feel it’s best not to drag things out and go for the full disabling. (Sorry about doing this in public – I like to be transparent about mod actions.
If you’d like to discuss, please use team@lesswrong.com
[I appreciate you and the team putting in the work to keep LW a good place, and don’t want to make it a thing where any mod action is met with “well you should have done this other more arduous thing”.]
Maybe there’s a “simple” fix that adds a “small” amount of moderator effort, and gives people like Bernd a bit more of a shot? The thing that comes to mind is: add an additional status between banned and and not banned, which is “restricted”. Then make a few “simple” changes to the behavior of restricted accounts. Maybe there’s one or a few that would direct better-suited behavior without further mod action. E.g.: restricted accounts can’t post comments greater than X thousand characters. E.g. restricted accounts can’t post more than X times in an hour.
[I appreciate your preamble. Thank you for the feedback and suggestion! Appreciated.]
We’ve actually just recently built “rate limits” for accounts as actually something in-between no action and banning. I have a draft post about our moderation philosoph and approach I want to get out in the next few days.
In this case I felt that it was better to skip the intermediary steps though, just going on experience with different types of users and likely outcomes.
I’m sad to see him go. I don’t know enough about LWs history and have too little experience with forum moderation to agree or disagree with your decision. Though LW had been around for a very long time without imploding so that’s evidence you guys know what you’re doing.
Please don’t take down his post though. I believe somewhere in there is a good faith opinion at odds with my own. I want to read and understand it. Just not ready for this much reading tonight.
I wish I could write so prolifically! Or maybe it’s a curse rather than a blessing because then it becomes an obstacle to people understanding your point of view.
I am a bit sad too. You might be reassured to know that we are generally very reluctant to remove content once posted and practically never do so excepting spam, even if we didn’t think it was great content.