I think it’s mostly common sense “don’t be (unnecessarily) rude to people” and “don’t hijack threads” and maybe also “don’t have a policy of aggressively dunking on people”. Like this includes many of the ways people try to impose social costs on X.[1]
Yes it’s what Ryan said. I don’t mind at all if there is a frontpage post saying “lab employees should not be welcome at venue X” or anything else along these lines. I think it is legitimate for people to make such choices and also to coordinate them here. This counts to me as imposing a social cost on people outside of LW.
I mostly mean that if I post on LW and people are rude then I‘d be less likely to post.
Another issue, that I didn’t get into, is that very extreme rhetoric, including Nazi comparisons, has the risk of radicalizing people and inciting violence, and is also just not good for people’s mental health.
I think it’s mostly common sense “don’t be (unnecessarily) rude to people” and “don’t hijack threads” and maybe also “don’t have a policy of aggressively dunking on people”. Like this includes many of the ways people try to impose social costs on X. [1]
(I’m committing to bowing out here.)
This originally said “all of”, I edited to “many of”.
Cool, yeah, I didn’t parse it that way, but this seems reasonable.
Yes it’s what Ryan said. I don’t mind at all if there is a frontpage post saying “lab employees should not be welcome at venue X” or anything else along these lines. I think it is legitimate for people to make such choices and also to coordinate them here. This counts to me as imposing a social cost on people outside of LW.
I mostly mean that if I post on LW and people are rude then I‘d be less likely to post.
Another issue, that I didn’t get into, is that very extreme rhetoric, including Nazi comparisons, has the risk of radicalizing people and inciting violence, and is also just not good for people’s mental health.