Each of the features has been used a bit, even recently. (I think there’s 3-7 people who’ve set some kind of intentional moderation style and/or guideline, and at least one person who’s banned a user from their posts recently).
I think the moderation guidelines help to set expectations and the small bit of counterfactual threat of banning helps lend them a bit of force.
The features were also a pre-requisite for Eliezer posting and/or allowing admins to do crossposts on his behalf (I doubt we would have prioritized them as hard without that, although I’d been developing the archipelago-concept-as-applied-to-lesswrong before then)
So I don’t consider the features a failure, so much as “they didn’t have this outsized, qualitatively different benefit” that I was hoping for.
The features were also a pre-requisite for Eliezer posting and/or allowing admins to do crossposts on his behalf (I doubt we would have prioritized them as hard without that, although I’d been developing the archipelago-concept-as-applied-to-lesswrong before then)
Yet Eliezer still isn’t participating on Less Wrong… is there some reason for that? Were the implemented features insufficient? Is there still something left to do?
The moderation tools were a prerequisite even for the degree of Eliezer participation you currently see (where periodically Robby crossposts things on his behalf), which I still consider quite worth it.
As Richard notes, Eliezer isn’t really participating in online discussion these days and that looks unlikely to change.
That makes it even worse, if true! If he doesn’t post anywhere, then he wasn’t ever going to post here, so what in the world was the point of all these changes and features and all that stuff that was allegedly “so that Eliezer would post here”?!
Each of the features has been used a bit, even recently. (I think there’s 3-7 people who’ve set some kind of intentional moderation style and/or guideline, and at least one person who’s banned a user from their posts recently).
I think the moderation guidelines help to set expectations and the small bit of counterfactual threat of banning helps lend them a bit of force.
The features were also a pre-requisite for Eliezer posting and/or allowing admins to do crossposts on his behalf (I doubt we would have prioritized them as hard without that, although I’d been developing the archipelago-concept-as-applied-to-lesswrong before then)
So I don’t consider the features a failure, so much as “they didn’t have this outsized, qualitatively different benefit” that I was hoping for.
Yet Eliezer still isn’t participating on Less Wrong… is there some reason for that? Were the implemented features insufficient? Is there still something left to do?
The moderation tools were a prerequisite even for the degree of Eliezer participation you currently see (where periodically Robby crossposts things on his behalf), which I still consider quite worth it.
As Richard notes, Eliezer isn’t really participating in online discussion these days and that looks unlikely to change.
Does Eliezer post anywhere public these days? His postings to Facebook are infrequent, and I don’t know of him posting anywhere else.
That makes it even worse, if true! If he doesn’t post anywhere, then he wasn’t ever going to post here, so what in the world was the point of all these changes and features and all that stuff that was allegedly “so that Eliezer would post here”?!
He seems to post on Twitter pretty frequently...
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