… it is not, in fact, the case, that [a user who’s been barred from commenting but otherwise still welcome on LW as a whole] is necessarily in possession of good critique. Indeed they might be, but they might also be precisely the kind of user who was the casus belli of the post in the first place.)
Note, by the way, that these two things are not at all mutually exclusive. It might, indeed, be the case that the post was motivated by some kinds of people/critiques—which have/are good critiques. (Indeed that’s one of the most important and consequential sorts of criticism of the post: that among its motivations was one or more bad motivations, which we should not endorse, and which we should, in fact, oppose, as following it would have bad effects.)
(I think this is a thread that, if I had a “slow mode” button to make users take longer to reply, I’d probably have clicked it right about now. I don’t have such a button, but Said and @Duncan_Sabien can you guys a) hold off for a couple hours on digging into this and b) generally take ~an hour in between replies here if you were gonna keep going)
Note, by the way, that these two things are not at all mutually exclusive. It might, indeed, be the case that the post was motivated by some kinds of people/critiques—which have/are good critiques. (Indeed that’s one of the most important and consequential sorts of criticism of the post: that among its motivations was one or more bad motivations, which we should not endorse, and which we should, in fact, oppose, as following it would have bad effects.)
(I think this is a thread that, if I had a “slow mode” button to make users take longer to reply, I’d probably have clicked it right about now. I don’t have such a button, but Said and @Duncan_Sabien can you guys a) hold off for a couple hours on digging into this and b) generally take ~an hour in between replies here if you were gonna keep going)