[ not a moderator, and my base position is that this is going to suck no matter how good most people’s intensions are. ]
I overall think the site admins are doing a very good job of maintaining LessWrong quality over time. They’re doing the right thing with an impossible job, implementing rate limits rather than bans, being somewhat responsive to questions and challenges about it, and being fairly open about their decisions.
It also sucks for many users who get throttled, especially for reasons they don’t agree with or for illegible reasons that can’t be evaluated objectively.
And that illegibility is what makes it an impossible balance—there are some adversarial interactions, where users will do their best to skim any legible rules (and where admins overreact to violations of a legible rule, for that matter). These are not the majority at all, but they’re enough to need some amount of handwaving and judgement that can’t be rigorously defended.
I’m sorry you’re throttled. I personally don’t find your comments problematic, though I haven’t studied closely enough to be sure. I’m glad that it’s not a full ban (or worse, a shadowban, where you can post, but nobody else sees it), and I wish there were a bit of a sliding scale in terms of N per day that ramps up as you get upvotes (and down if not).
[ not a moderator, and my base position is that this is going to suck no matter how good most people’s intensions are. ]
I overall think the site admins are doing a very good job of maintaining LessWrong quality over time. They’re doing the right thing with an impossible job, implementing rate limits rather than bans, being somewhat responsive to questions and challenges about it, and being fairly open about their decisions.
It also sucks for many users who get throttled, especially for reasons they don’t agree with or for illegible reasons that can’t be evaluated objectively.
And that illegibility is what makes it an impossible balance—there are some adversarial interactions, where users will do their best to skim any legible rules (and where admins overreact to violations of a legible rule, for that matter). These are not the majority at all, but they’re enough to need some amount of handwaving and judgement that can’t be rigorously defended.
I’m sorry you’re throttled. I personally don’t find your comments problematic, though I haven’t studied closely enough to be sure. I’m glad that it’s not a full ban (or worse, a shadowban, where you can post, but nobody else sees it), and I wish there were a bit of a sliding scale in terms of N per day that ramps up as you get upvotes (and down if not).