The majority of such complaints that do well on LW are in reference to users or discussions on LW or related groups. Not always a specific individual, but often a specific set of posts or comment patterns. There are exceptions, where someone complains about some ideas in oped or twitter, but those tend to get downvoted unless they’re truly pervasive.
And even so, if they’re not steelmanning the opposition, or pointing out some interesting pattern or reasoning for the disagreement, they tend to do poorly here.
The majority of such complaints that do well on LW are in reference to users or discussions on LW or related groups. Not always a specific individual, but often a specific set of posts or comment patterns. There are exceptions, where someone complains about some ideas in oped or twitter, but those tend to get downvoted unless they’re truly pervasive.
And even so, if they’re not steelmanning the opposition, or pointing out some interesting pattern or reasoning for the disagreement, they tend to do poorly here.
A conspiracy theory about Jeffrey Epstein has 264 votes currently: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hurF9uFGkJYXzpHEE/a-non-magical-explanation-of-jeffrey-epstein