Okay, but… why. Why do you think that. Is there a reason you think that, which other people could inspect your reasoning on, which is more viewable than unenumerated “complaints”? Again, I believe the complaints exist. How many, order of magnitude? Were they all from unique complainants?
I hate to be indelicate, but are you insane? It’s a goddamn web forum, not the ICC. The mods got complaints about a users’ behavior and they banned him. They can’t run a focus group to see how everybody feels about the situation first.
I mean, to be clear, I did have like 20+ hours of conversation with many authors and contributors who had very strong feelings on this topic just as part of writing this post[1], with many different disagreeing viewpoints, so I think we did a lot more than “run a focus group”.
Because Said is an important user who provides criticism/commentary across many years. This is not about some random new user, which is why there is a long post in the first place rather than him being silently banned.
Alicorn is raising a legitimate point. That it is easy to get complaints about a user who is critical of others, that we don’t have much information about the magnitude, and that it is far harder to get information about users who think his posts are useful.
LessWrong isn’t a democracy, but these are legitimate questions to ask because they are about what kind of culture (as Habryka talks about) LW is trying to create.
I hate to be indelicate, but are you insane? It’s a goddamn web forum, not the ICC. The mods got complaints about a users’ behavior and they banned him. They can’t run a focus group to see how everybody feels about the situation first.
I mean, to be clear, I did have like 20+ hours of conversation with many authors and contributors who had very strong feelings on this topic just as part of writing this post[1], with many different disagreeing viewpoints, so I think we did a lot more than “run a focus group”.
Not to mention the many more conversations I’ve had over the last decade about this
Because Said is an important user who provides criticism/commentary across many years. This is not about some random new user, which is why there is a long post in the first place rather than him being silently banned.
Alicorn is raising a legitimate point. That it is easy to get complaints about a user who is critical of others, that we don’t have much information about the magnitude, and that it is far harder to get information about users who think his posts are useful.
LessWrong isn’t a democracy, but these are legitimate questions to ask because they are about what kind of culture (as Habryka talks about) LW is trying to create.