I ideally want ~one set of norms, even if it doesn’t agree with my preferences on all points. The cost of illegibility and decentralization is not in my view worth the benefit of being able to fiddle with everything.
I do think it’s possible for one set of norms to basically include all the stuff you mentioned as different knobs, though.
Hmm – can you talk more about what it’d mean to have one set of rules and norms with lots of knobs? (Like, how is that distinguished from having multiple sets of knobs? Are you saying that you expect clarity over the knobs to reduce the confusion to the point that we can all agree that there’s just one set of meta-rules? That seems plausible but it’d be helpful for you to spell out more detail of what that looks like)
Hmm, perhaps another way to put it would be that I would like there to be one “standard of discourse” across the site, and multiple types of conversations that can be had within that standard.
I ideally want ~one set of norms, even if it doesn’t agree with my preferences on all points. The cost of illegibility and decentralization is not in my view worth the benefit of being able to fiddle with everything.
I do think it’s possible for one set of norms to basically include all the stuff you mentioned as different knobs, though.
Hmm – can you talk more about what it’d mean to have one set of rules and norms with lots of knobs? (Like, how is that distinguished from having multiple sets of knobs? Are you saying that you expect clarity over the knobs to reduce the confusion to the point that we can all agree that there’s just one set of meta-rules? That seems plausible but it’d be helpful for you to spell out more detail of what that looks like)
Hmm, perhaps another way to put it would be that I would like there to be one “standard of discourse” across the site, and multiple types of conversations that can be had within that standard.
What distinction would you draw between that and “there is a meta-standard that includes either 2, or possibly hundreds, of conversation-types?”
(I have come around to “‘hundreds of conversation’ types are pretty confusing and not a good idea”, but not sure which principle you’re drawing.