(In some cases I think creating a whole new post would actually be just fine, based on how I’ve seen, say, Eliezer, Robin Hanson, Zvi, Ben Hoffman and Sarah Constantin respond to each other in longform on occasion. In other cases creating a whole new post might go over less well, and/or might be a bit of an experiment rather than a tried-and-true-solution, but I think it’s the correct experiment to try)
Also want to be a clear—if authors are banning or asking lots of users to avoid criticism, I do think the author should take something of a social hit as “a person who can’t accept any criticism”. But I nonetheless think it’s still a better metanorm for established authors to have control over their post’s discussion area.
[The LessWrong team is currently trying to develop a much clearer understanding of what good moderation policies are, which might result in some of my opinions changing over the next few weeks, this is just a quick summary of what I currently believe]
Also want to be a clear—if authors are banning or asking lots of users to avoid criticism, I do think the author should take something of a social hit as “a person who can’t accept any criticism”. But I nonetheless think it’s still a better metanorm for established authors to have control over their post’s discussion area.
Quite. A suggestion, then, if I may: display “how many people has this person banned from their posts” (with, upon a click or mouseover or some such, the full list of users available, who have been thus banned) prominently, when viewing a person’s post (somewhere near the post’s author line, perhaps). This way, if I open a post by one Carol, say, I can see at once that she’s banned 12 people from her posts; I take note of this (as that is unusually many); I then click/mouseover/etc., and see either that all the banned accounts are known trolls and curmudgeons (and conclude that Carol is a sensible person with a low tolerance for low-grade nonsense), or that all the banned accounts are people I judge to be reasonable and polite (and conclude that Carol is a prima donna with a low tolerance for having her ideas challenged).
Something in that space seems basically reasonable. Note that I haven’t prioritized cleaning up (and then improving visibility for) the moderation log in part because the list of users who have ever banned users is actually just extremely short, and meanwhile there’s a lot of other site features that seem higher priority.
I have been revisiting it recently and think it’d be a good thing to include in the nearish future (esp. if I am prioritizing other features that’d make archipelago-norms more likely to actually get used), but for the immediate future I actually think just saying to the few people who’ve expressed concerns ‘yo, when you look at the moderation log almost nobody has used it’ is the right call given limited dev time.
(In some cases I think creating a whole new post would actually be just fine, based on how I’ve seen, say, Eliezer, Robin Hanson, Zvi, Ben Hoffman and Sarah Constantin respond to each other in longform on occasion. In other cases creating a whole new post might go over less well, and/or might be a bit of an experiment rather than a tried-and-true-solution, but I think it’s the correct experiment to try)
Also want to be a clear—if authors are banning or asking lots of users to avoid criticism, I do think the author should take something of a social hit as “a person who can’t accept any criticism”. But I nonetheless think it’s still a better metanorm for established authors to have control over their post’s discussion area.
[The LessWrong team is currently trying to develop a much clearer understanding of what good moderation policies are, which might result in some of my opinions changing over the next few weeks, this is just a quick summary of what I currently believe]
Quite. A suggestion, then, if I may: display “how many people has this person banned from their posts” (with, upon a click or mouseover or some such, the full list of users available, who have been thus banned) prominently, when viewing a person’s post (somewhere near the post’s author line, perhaps). This way, if I open a post by one Carol, say, I can see at once that she’s banned 12 people from her posts; I take note of this (as that is unusually many); I then click/mouseover/etc., and see either that all the banned accounts are known trolls and curmudgeons (and conclude that Carol is a sensible person with a low tolerance for low-grade nonsense), or that all the banned accounts are people I judge to be reasonable and polite (and conclude that Carol is a prima donna with a low tolerance for having her ideas challenged).
Something in that space seems basically reasonable. Note that I haven’t prioritized cleaning up (and then improving visibility for) the moderation log in part because the list of users who have ever banned users is actually just extremely short, and meanwhile there’s a lot of other site features that seem higher priority.
I have been revisiting it recently and think it’d be a good thing to include in the nearish future (esp. if I am prioritizing other features that’d make archipelago-norms more likely to actually get used), but for the immediate future I actually think just saying to the few people who’ve expressed concerns ‘yo, when you look at the moderation log almost nobody has used it’ is the right call given limited dev time.