Alicorn comments on Poll—Is endless September a threat to LW and what should be done?

Alicorn 10 Dec 2012 1:01 UTC
16 points

If you’re talking about yourself, go for it. Get a foot in the code, make the front page better, be audacious. Make this place awesome.

I’m opposed to appointing her as any sort of actual-power-having-person. Epiphany is a relative newcomer who makes a lot of missteps.
- [deleted] 10 Dec 2012 5:39 UTC
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  I agree that appointing her would be a bad idea.
  
  I see no problem with encouraging people (in this case, her) to become the kind of person we should appoint.
- wedrifid 10 Dec 2012 1:21 UTC
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  I’m opposed to appointing her as any sort of actual-power-having-person.
  
  The personal antipathy there has been distinctly evident to any onlookers who are mildly curious about how status and power tends to influence human behavior and thought.
  - Alicorn 10 Dec 2012 6:41 UTC
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    I think anyone with any noticeable antipathy between them and any regular user should not have unilateral policymaking power, except Eliezer if applicable because he was here first. (This rules me out too. I have mod power, but not mod initiative—I cannot make policy.)
    - wedrifid 10 Dec 2012 9:58 UTC
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      I think anyone with any noticeable antipathy between them and any regular user should not have unilateral policymaking power, except Eliezer if applicable because he was here first. (This rules me out too. I have mod power, but not mod initiative—I cannot make policy.)
      
      I agree and note that it is even more important that people with personal conflicts don’t have the power (or, preferably, voluntarily waive the power) to actively take specific actions against their personal enemies.
      
      (Mind you, the parent also seems somewhat out of place in the context and very nearly comical given the actual history of power abuses on this site.)