Thank you, this seems like a very clear and insightful description of what is confusing and dysfunctional about the current situation.
To add some of my personal thoughts on this, the fact that the Internet always had traditional forums with the forum model of moderation shows that model can work perfectly well, and there is no need for LW to also have author moderation, from a pure moderation (as opposed to attracting authors) perspective. And “standalone blog author tier people” not having come back in 8 years since author mod was implemented means it’s time to give up on that hope.
LW is supposed to be a place for rationality, and the forum model of moderation is clearly better for that (by not allowing authors to quash/discourage disagreement or criticism). “A moderator shouldn’t mod their own threads” is such an obviously good rule and widely implemented on forums, that sigh… I guess I’ll stop here before I start imputing impure motives to the site admins again, or restart a debate I don’t really want to have at this point.
Thank you, this seems like a very clear and insightful description of what is confusing and dysfunctional about the current situation.
To add some of my personal thoughts on this, the fact that the Internet always had traditional forums with the forum model of moderation shows that model can work perfectly well, and there is no need for LW to also have author moderation, from a pure moderation (as opposed to attracting authors) perspective. And “standalone blog author tier people” not having come back in 8 years since author mod was implemented means it’s time to give up on that hope.
LW is supposed to be a place for rationality, and the forum model of moderation is clearly better for that (by not allowing authors to quash/discourage disagreement or criticism). “A moderator shouldn’t mod their own threads” is such an obviously good rule and widely implemented on forums, that sigh… I guess I’ll stop here before I start imputing impure motives to the site admins again, or restart a debate I don’t really want to have at this point.