Yes, Reddit is one of the last places on the internet where this is semi-common, but even there, most subreddits are moderated by people who are active posters, and there are no strong norms against moderators moderating responses to their own comments or posts.
I agree I overstated here and that there are some places on the internet where this is common practice, but it’s really a very small fraction of the internet these days. You might bemoan this as a fate of the internet, but it’s just really not how most of the world thinks content moderation works.
There is actually a significant difference between “Nowhere on the whole wide internet works like that!” and “few places work like that”. It’s not just a nitpick, because to support my point that it will be hard for Eliezer to get social legitimacy for freely exercising author mod power, I just need that there is a not too tiny group of people on the Internet who still prefers to have no author moderation (it can be small in absolute numbers, as long as it’s not near zero, since they’re likely to congregate at a place like LW that values rationality and epistemics). The fact that there are still even a few places on the Internet that works like this makes a big difference to how plausible my claim is.
I mean, I think no, if truly there is only a relatively small fraction of people like that around, we as the moderators can just ask those people to leave. Like, it’s fine if we have to ask hundreds of people to leave, the world is wide and big. If most of the internet is on board with not having this specific stipulation, then there is a viable LessWrong that doesn’t have those people.
Yes, Reddit is one of the last places on the internet where this is semi-common, but even there, most subreddits are moderated by people who are active posters, and there are no strong norms against moderators moderating responses to their own comments or posts.
I agree I overstated here and that there are some places on the internet where this is common practice, but it’s really a very small fraction of the internet these days. You might bemoan this as a fate of the internet, but it’s just really not how most of the world thinks content moderation works.
There is actually a significant difference between “Nowhere on the whole wide internet works like that!” and “few places work like that”. It’s not just a nitpick, because to support my point that it will be hard for Eliezer to get social legitimacy for freely exercising author mod power, I just need that there is a not too tiny group of people on the Internet who still prefers to have no author moderation (it can be small in absolute numbers, as long as it’s not near zero, since they’re likely to congregate at a place like LW that values rationality and epistemics). The fact that there are still even a few places on the Internet that works like this makes a big difference to how plausible my claim is.
I mean, I think no, if truly there is only a relatively small fraction of people like that around, we as the moderators can just ask those people to leave. Like, it’s fine if we have to ask hundreds of people to leave, the world is wide and big. If most of the internet is on board with not having this specific stipulation, then there is a viable LessWrong that doesn’t have those people.
[ belabor → bemoan? ]