Please distinguish between “norms”, which are generally at least somewhat illegible and enforced informally at multiple levels, from “rules”, which are expressed more clearly and judged/enforced by a coordinated entity. Moderation is about rules. Voting, reacts, and comments are controlled by norms.
The site owners, mods, and authors have pretty good control over rules, and can perhaps design nudges toward norms. The readers and commenters are the ones who’ll actually determine the norms (and, in turn, be influenced by each other’s ideas of the norms).
As more a reader/commenter than an author, I’m unlikely to pay much conscious attention to more than 2 or 3 variants of the guidelines. Possibly a few more if there is a strong separation between the islands (visually distinct, different post/comment/curation lists), so my brain is in a different context for each of them.
[edit: This probably should be a comment, not an answer. Is there any way for me to change it? ]
I agree with this distinction. Will try to keep it in mind in the future and possibly rewrite the post when I have time to clarify.
[meta: I think you should be able to move comments back and forth between answers and comments by using the triple-dot menu in the top-right. It might not be there if you’re using GreaterWrong]
Please distinguish between “norms”, which are generally at least somewhat illegible and enforced informally at multiple levels, from “rules”, which are expressed more clearly and judged/enforced by a coordinated entity. Moderation is about rules. Voting, reacts, and comments are controlled by norms.
The site owners, mods, and authors have pretty good control over rules, and can perhaps design nudges toward norms. The readers and commenters are the ones who’ll actually determine the norms (and, in turn, be influenced by each other’s ideas of the norms).
As more a reader/commenter than an author, I’m unlikely to pay much conscious attention to more than 2 or 3 variants of the guidelines. Possibly a few more if there is a strong separation between the islands (visually distinct, different post/comment/curation lists), so my brain is in a different context for each of them.
[edit: This probably should be a comment, not an answer. Is there any way for me to change it? ]
I agree with this distinction. Will try to keep it in mind in the future and possibly rewrite the post when I have time to clarify.
[meta: I think you should be able to move comments back and forth between answers and comments by using the triple-dot menu in the top-right. It might not be there if you’re using GreaterWrong]