(After all, I too can say: “For roughly 7 years, I have spent many hours trying to get Oliver Habryka to understand and learn how to run a discussion forum properly by my lights.” Would this not sound absurd? Would he not object to this formulation? And rightly so…)
FWIW, this seems to me like a totally fine sentence. The “by my lights” at the end is indeed communicating the exact thing you are asking for here, trying to distinguish between a claim of obvious correctness, and a personal judgement.
Feel free to summarize things like this in the future, I would not object.
Of course, the truth of this claim hinges on how many is “few”. Less than 10? Less than 100?
It of course depends on how active someone on LessWrong is (you are not as widely known as Eliezer or Scott, of course). My modal guess would be that you would be around place 20 in how people would bring up your name. I think this would be an underestimate of your effect on the culture. If someone else thinks this is implausible, I would be happy to operationalize, find someone to arbitrate, and then bet on it.
I mean, I have a whole section of this post where I am making explicit rules forbidding certain sorts of comments. That’s what the precedent section is about. Of course, you are likely to disagree that those qualify as appropriate rules, or good rules, but that’s what got us to this point.
FWIW, this seems to me like a totally fine sentence. The “by my lights” at the end is indeed communicating the exact thing you are asking for here, trying to distinguish between a claim of obvious correctness, and a personal judgement.
Feel free to summarize things like this in the future, I would not object.
It of course depends on how active someone on LessWrong is (you are not as widely known as Eliezer or Scott, of course). My modal guess would be that you would be around place 20 in how people would bring up your name. I think this would be an underestimate of your effect on the culture. If someone else thinks this is implausible, I would be happy to operationalize, find someone to arbitrate, and then bet on it.
You are here responding to a sentence from a previous draft of the post. My guess is you want to edit.
I mean, I have a whole section of this post where I am making explicit rules forbidding certain sorts of comments. That’s what the precedent section is about. Of course, you are likely to disagree that those qualify as appropriate rules, or good rules, but that’s what got us to this point.
Already edited by the time you posted the comment.