hi, just registering that Tsvi warned me before using mod tools recently, I updated, I was not banned, and it seemed fine. I generally think your reaction to this is reasonable and understandable, I was stressed by getting warned, but I tried to react in a way that would result in not getting banned. I think that the effect on how I write is not going to be that I censor myself, just that I think more before commenting on some people’s posts.
I do think there’s such a thing as giving a moderator too much power over a situation. but I also want to register that the noise any time this happens is frustrating and leads me to want features related to muting drama-related topics.
that said, I’m interested in what you think of bluesky’s model, where blocking someone hides their replies from your threads, but nobody can delete each others’ replies, so the replies are still out there and can and do turn into separate discussions when the people involved in the reply are still interested in them. in my opinion it’s a bit too strong because it means gentle disagreement across factions is still hard to have happen but it produces strong incentive for disagreement across factions to be cordial, which I think has mildly increased sanity of the people on bluesky (but… phew, there’s a long way to go and the bluesky population’s view on AI seems pretty insane in a way that seems immune to evidence), but I like it in many ways; it’s weaker than the LW/facebook model where you can just ban anyone.
hi, just registering that Tsvi warned me before using mod tools recently, I updated, I was not banned, and it seemed fine. I generally think your reaction to this is reasonable and understandable, I was stressed by getting warned, but I tried to react in a way that would result in not getting banned. I think that the effect on how I write is not going to be that I censor myself, just that I think more before commenting on some people’s posts.
I do think there’s such a thing as giving a moderator too much power over a situation. but I also want to register that the noise any time this happens is frustrating and leads me to want features related to muting drama-related topics.
that said, I’m interested in what you think of bluesky’s model, where blocking someone hides their replies from your threads, but nobody can delete each others’ replies, so the replies are still out there and can and do turn into separate discussions when the people involved in the reply are still interested in them. in my opinion it’s a bit too strong because it means gentle disagreement across factions is still hard to have happen but it produces strong incentive for disagreement across factions to be cordial, which I think has mildly increased sanity of the people on bluesky (but… phew, there’s a long way to go and the bluesky population’s view on AI seems pretty insane in a way that seems immune to evidence), but I like it in many ways; it’s weaker than the LW/facebook model where you can just ban anyone.