@Ben Pace I’m surprised that you’re surprised. Where did your impression that I generally disapprove of the job site moderators are doing on LW come from, if you can recall?
In the last year I’d guess you’ve written over ten thousand words complaining about LW moderation over dozens of comments, and I don’t recall you ever saying anything positive about the moderation? I recall once said that you won’t leave the site over our actions (so far), which sounds like you’ll bear our moderation, but is quite different from saying it’s overall good.
Thanks, to clarify some more in case it’s helpful, I think I’ve only complained about 2 things, the Said banning and the author moderation policy, and the word count was just from a lot of back and forth, not the number issues I’ve had with the mod team? A lot of what you do is just invisible to me, like the user pre-filtering that habryka mentioned and the routine moderation work, but I assume you’re doing a good job on them, as I’m pretty happy with the general LW environment as far as lack of spam, generally good user behavior, and not seeing many complaints about being unfairly moderated by the mod team, etc.
Found my quote about not leaving:
My response to this is that I don’t trust people to garden their own space, along with other reasons to dislike the ban system. I’m not going to leave LW over it though, but just be annoyed and disappointed at humanity whenever I’m reminded of it.
Yeah I think you misinterpreted it. I was just trying to say that unlike those who got what they wanted (the author mod policy) by leaving or threatening to leave, I’m explicitly not using this threat as a way to get what I want. It was a way to claim the moral high ground I guess. Too bad the message misfired.
@Ben Pace I’m surprised that you’re surprised. Where did your impression that I generally disapprove of the job site moderators are doing on LW come from, if you can recall?
In the last year I’d guess you’ve written over ten thousand words complaining about LW moderation over dozens of comments, and I don’t recall you ever saying anything positive about the moderation? I recall once said that you won’t leave the site over our actions (so far), which sounds like you’ll bear our moderation, but is quite different from saying it’s overall good.
Thanks, to clarify some more in case it’s helpful, I think I’ve only complained about 2 things, the Said banning and the author moderation policy, and the word count was just from a lot of back and forth, not the number issues I’ve had with the mod team? A lot of what you do is just invisible to me, like the user pre-filtering that habryka mentioned and the routine moderation work, but I assume you’re doing a good job on them, as I’m pretty happy with the general LW environment as far as lack of spam, generally good user behavior, and not seeing many complaints about being unfairly moderated by the mod team, etc.
Found my quote about not leaving:
Yeah I think you misinterpreted it. I was just trying to say that unlike those who got what they wanted (the author mod policy) by leaving or threatening to leave, I’m explicitly not using this threat as a way to get what I want. It was a way to claim the moral high ground I guess. Too bad the message misfired.