I agree that quality of his comments dropped significantly after he was banned for the first time. I think that Eugene_Nier’s comments weren’t worse than LW average, that’s why when he was banned some people expressed regret. But later he mostly tried to make every discussion into discussion about his favorite topics and push his opinions and was no longer interested in exchange of ideas.
I like this line of reasoning. Eugene sounds like a real name. If it’s attached to his IRL identity, the loss of face value could be enough to have immense interest in discrediting the place that he was discredited. That’s a tremendous sunk cost. I can’t think of any easy solution to that kind of problem :/
I’m fairly sure I remember seeing a comment from Eugine_Nier saying “no, it’s not my real name, just a pun on engineer”. But I can’t find it now. Anyway, if that’s right then I think this explanation doesn’t work.
(But a person can resent being publicly criticized, punished, etc., even if there aren’t “real life” consequences.)
I agree that quality of his comments dropped significantly after he was banned for the first time. I think that Eugene_Nier’s comments weren’t worse than LW average, that’s why when he was banned some people expressed regret. But later he mostly tried to make every discussion into discussion about his favorite topics and push his opinions and was no longer interested in exchange of ideas.
I like this line of reasoning. Eugene sounds like a real name. If it’s attached to his IRL identity, the loss of face value could be enough to have immense interest in discrediting the place that he was discredited. That’s a tremendous sunk cost. I can’t think of any easy solution to that kind of problem :/
I’m fairly sure I remember seeing a comment from Eugine_Nier saying “no, it’s not my real name, just a pun on engineer”. But I can’t find it now. Anyway, if that’s right then I think this explanation doesn’t work.
(But a person can resent being publicly criticized, punished, etc., even if there aren’t “real life” consequences.)
Here it is.
Well done!