I have an information question about the 3 year ban, in that I’d like to ask why you chose a temporary ban over a indefinite ban?
In particular, given the history of Said Achmiz here, including the case where he did the same behavior he was rate-limited before, I am a bit confused on what you are hoping to do by simply performing a temporary ban in lieu of an indefinite ban:
To which we responded by telling Said to please let authors moderate as they desire and to not do that again, and gave him a 3 month rate-limit
3 years is long enough that LessWrong might be a very different place by then, or Said might have changed quite a bit, or maybe things will have actually sunk in in 3 years. I think it’s likely for the threshold for rebanning to be pretty low in 3 years, but it seemed to me potentially worth it to leave some door open in the more distant future.
I have an information question about the 3 year ban, in that I’d like to ask why you chose a temporary ban over a indefinite ban?
In particular, given the history of Said Achmiz here, including the case where he did the same behavior he was rate-limited before, I am a bit confused on what you are hoping to do by simply performing a temporary ban in lieu of an indefinite ban:
3 years is long enough that LessWrong might be a very different place by then, or Said might have changed quite a bit, or maybe things will have actually sunk in in 3 years. I think it’s likely for the threshold for rebanning to be pretty low in 3 years, but it seemed to me potentially worth it to leave some door open in the more distant future.