Only as a user. This is all on Davis’s personal blog
The precise definition is important, because there are many definitions of “Nazi” that an uncharitable judge could put me and many people that I care about under. E.g. see clone of saturn’s comment.
Accusing someone else of being a Nazi and using that to justify that they have to be banned or punished is an extremely common occurrence on the internet.
Davis himself says that the precise definition is really important:
and such rules should be clearly articulated beforehand
And I strongly agree with that. So it seems reasonable to understand what the remote scope of that ban is supposed to be. The current thing definitely strikes me as vague enough that I would not invest significantly into an online community that has that as one of their rules.
It’s also important because that footnote seems to me like it hides all the complexity of Davis’s proposed policy under the rug, by providing an extremely broad escape clause that I expect to get used all the time when moderators actually get annoyed or into a topic that they care a lot about.
Only as a user. This is all on Davis’s personal blog
The precise definition is important, because there are many definitions of “Nazi” that an uncharitable judge could put me and many people that I care about under. E.g. see clone of saturn’s comment.
Accusing someone else of being a Nazi and using that to justify that they have to be banned or punished is an extremely common occurrence on the internet.
Davis himself says that the precise definition is really important:
And I strongly agree with that. So it seems reasonable to understand what the remote scope of that ban is supposed to be. The current thing definitely strikes me as vague enough that I would not invest significantly into an online community that has that as one of their rules.
It’s also important because that footnote seems to me like it hides all the complexity of Davis’s proposed policy under the rug, by providing an extremely broad escape clause that I expect to get used all the time when moderators actually get annoyed or into a topic that they care a lot about.