We briefly discussed this internally. I reverted Kaj’s edit since I think we should basically never touch other user’s content unless it is dealing with some real information hazards, or threatens violence or doxxes a specific individual (and probably some weird edge cases that are rare and can’t easily enumerate, but which “broad PR concerns” are definitely not an instance of).
(We also sometimes edit user’s content if there is some broken formatting or something in that reference class, though that feels like a different kind of thing)
Probably useful to clarify so people can understand how moderation works:
The semi-official norms around moderation tend to be “moderators have discretion to take actions without waiting for consensus, but then should report actions they took to other moderators for sanity checking.” (I don’t think this is formal policy but I’d personally endorse it being policy. Waiting for consensus on things often makes it impossible to take action in time sensitive situations, but checking in after the fact gets you most of the benefit)
We briefly discussed this internally. I reverted Kaj’s edit since I think we should basically never touch other user’s content unless it is dealing with some real information hazards, or threatens violence or doxxes a specific individual (and probably some weird edge cases that are rare and can’t easily enumerate, but which “broad PR concerns” are definitely not an instance of).
(We also sometimes edit user’s content if there is some broken formatting or something in that reference class, though that feels like a different kind of thing)
Probably useful to clarify so people can understand how moderation works:
The semi-official norms around moderation tend to be “moderators have discretion to take actions without waiting for consensus, but then should report actions they took to other moderators for sanity checking.” (I don’t think this is formal policy but I’d personally endorse it being policy. Waiting for consensus on things often makes it impossible to take action in time sensitive situations, but checking in after the fact gets you most of the benefit)
This should be advertised in meta.
And also we edit other users’ content when they give us permission to, which happens a lot.