On a community site, I think you have to assume almost all people aren’t malicious.
We also need to optimize the extent to which this is the case. My point was about vulnerability to small groups of outsiders, for which the state of the community is not particularly relevant.
What’s the expected damage? A bad post?
Moderately bad posts that appear to be warmly supported by the community. This sends incorrect signals about the community to members of the community.
Moderately bad posts that appear to be warmly supported by the community. This sends incorrect signals about the community to members of the community.
I see what you’re saying here, but this strikes me as difficult to sustain, and liable to working too hard to defend purity at the cost of the valuable good faith outside view. YMMV, of course.
We also need to optimize the extent to which this is the case. My point was about vulnerability to small groups of outsiders, for which the state of the community is not particularly relevant.
Moderately bad posts that appear to be warmly supported by the community. This sends incorrect signals about the community to members of the community.
I see what you’re saying here, but this strikes me as difficult to sustain, and liable to working too hard to defend purity at the cost of the valuable good faith outside view. YMMV, of course.