I don’t know about Scott. Him being personally active on the site was long before my tenure as admin, and I am not even fully sure how moderation or deletion at the time worked.
I don’t think Said ever banned anyone, though he also wrote only a very small number of top-level posts, so there wasn’t much opportunity. My guess is he wouldn’t have even if he had been writing a lot of top-level posts.
More substantively, I think my feelings and policies are fundamentally based on a (near) symmetry between the author and commenter. If they are both basically LW users in good standing, why should the author get so much more power in a conflict/disagreement.[1] So this doesn’t apply to moderating/filtering out users who are just unsuitable for LW or one’s own site.
I mean I understand you have your reasons, but it doesn’t remove the unfairness. Like if in a lawsuit for some reason a disinterested judge can’t be found, and the only option is to let a friend of the plaintiff be the judge, that “reason” is not going to remove the unfairness.
I don’t know about Scott. Him being personally active on the site was long before my tenure as admin, and I am not even fully sure how moderation or deletion at the time worked.
I don’t think Said ever banned anyone, though he also wrote only a very small number of top-level posts, so there wasn’t much opportunity. My guess is he wouldn’t have even if he had been writing a lot of top-level posts.
More substantively, I think my feelings and policies are fundamentally based on a (near) symmetry between the author and commenter. If they are both basically LW users in good standing, why should the author get so much more power in a conflict/disagreement.[1] So this doesn’t apply to moderating/filtering out users who are just unsuitable for LW or one’s own site.
I mean I understand you have your reasons, but it doesn’t remove the unfairness. Like if in a lawsuit for some reason a disinterested judge can’t be found, and the only option is to let a friend of the plaintiff be the judge, that “reason” is not going to remove the unfairness.
Ok thanks, I put in an edit to note your point.