“Can anyone make a personal page?
Are there any requirements for the content—does it need to be “rationality” themed, or can it be whatever the user wants (with the expectation that only LW-appropriate stuff will get promoted to the general frontpage)?
Can a user get kicked off for inappropriate content (whatever that means)?”
Current answer to all of those is:
I don’t have a plan for that yet, let’s figure it out as we run into that problem. For now having too much traffic or content to the site seems like a less important error mode, even if that content is bad, as long as it doesn’t clog up the attention of everyone else.
I would probably suggest warning and eventually banning people who repeatedly try to bring highly controversial politics onto the site, or who repeatedly act in bad faith or taste, so I don’t think we want to leave those personal pages fully unmoderated. But the moderation threshold should be a good bit higher than on the main page. No other constraints on content for now.
When deciding whether to publish content it seems to me to be important whether content is welcome or isn’t. Unclarity about the policy can hold people back from contributing.
“Can anyone make a personal page? Are there any requirements for the content—does it need to be “rationality” themed, or can it be whatever the user wants (with the expectation that only LW-appropriate stuff will get promoted to the general frontpage)? Can a user get kicked off for inappropriate content (whatever that means)?”
Current answer to all of those is:
I don’t have a plan for that yet, let’s figure it out as we run into that problem. For now having too much traffic or content to the site seems like a less important error mode, even if that content is bad, as long as it doesn’t clog up the attention of everyone else.
I would probably suggest warning and eventually banning people who repeatedly try to bring highly controversial politics onto the site, or who repeatedly act in bad faith or taste, so I don’t think we want to leave those personal pages fully unmoderated. But the moderation threshold should be a good bit higher than on the main page. No other constraints on content for now.
When deciding whether to publish content it seems to me to be important whether content is welcome or isn’t. Unclarity about the policy can hold people back from contributing.