To be fair, in this context, I did say upthread that I wanted to ban Zack from my posts and possibly the entire site. As someone with moderator status (though I haven’t been moderating very much to date) I should have been much more cautious about mentioning banning people, even if that’s just me, no matter my level of aggravation and frustration.
I’m not sure what the criteria for “interesting” is, but my current personal leaning would be to exert more pressure than banning just crackpots and “violated norms really hard”, but I haven’t thought about this or discussed it all that much. I would do so before advocating hard for particular standard to be adopted widely.
But these are my personal feelings, not ones I’ve really discussed with the team and definitely not any team consensus about norms or policies.
(Possibly relevant or irrelevant I wrote before habryka’s most recent comment below.)
*nods* To give outsiders a bit of a perspective on this: Ruby has joined the team relatively recently and so I expect to have a pretty significant number of disagreements with him on broader moderation and site culture. I also think it’s really important for all members of the LW team to be able to freely express their opinions in public and participate in public conversations with their own models and opinions.
In practice, I expect Ruby’s opinions to obviously factor into where we will go in terms of site moderation, but that based on how we made decisions in the past that we would try really hard to come to agreement first and then try to explain our new positions publicly and get more feedback before we make any large changes to the way we enforce site norms.
I personally think that banning people for things in the category of “tone” or “adversarialness” should be done only with very large hesitation and after many iterations of conversations, and I expect this to stay our site policy for the foreseeable future.
should be done only with very large hesitation and after many iterations of conversations, and I expect this to stay our site policy for the foreseeable future.
For a long-standing community member, this does seem correct to me.
To be fair, in this context, I did say upthread that I wanted to ban Zack from my posts and possibly the entire site. As someone with moderator status (though I haven’t been moderating very much to date) I should have been much more cautious about mentioning banning people, even if that’s just me, no matter my level of aggravation and frustration.
I’m not sure what the criteria for “interesting” is, but my current personal leaning would be to exert more pressure than banning just crackpots and “violated norms really hard”, but I haven’t thought about this or discussed it all that much. I would do so before advocating hard for particular standard to be adopted widely.
But these are my personal feelings, not ones I’ve really discussed with the team and definitely not any team consensus about norms or policies.
(Possibly relevant or irrelevant I wrote before habryka’s most recent comment below.)
*nods* To give outsiders a bit of a perspective on this: Ruby has joined the team relatively recently and so I expect to have a pretty significant number of disagreements with him on broader moderation and site culture. I also think it’s really important for all members of the LW team to be able to freely express their opinions in public and participate in public conversations with their own models and opinions.
In practice, I expect Ruby’s opinions to obviously factor into where we will go in terms of site moderation, but that based on how we made decisions in the past that we would try really hard to come to agreement first and then try to explain our new positions publicly and get more feedback before we make any large changes to the way we enforce site norms.
I personally think that banning people for things in the category of “tone” or “adversarialness” should be done only with very large hesitation and after many iterations of conversations, and I expect this to stay our site policy for the foreseeable future.
For a long-standing community member, this does seem correct to me.