No need to apologize for focusing on points of disagreement. And I’m grateful for the commentary and confusion, because it pointed to important questions about how to have good discourse and caused me to notice something I do frequently that is likely a mistake. It’s like finally having an editor, in the good way.
I’m not on the moderation team, but my perspective is that the two goals overlap and are fully compatible but largely distinct and need to be optimized for in different ways (see Tale of Alice Almost). And this is the situation in which you get a conflict between them, because norms are messy and you can’t avoid what happens in hard mode threads bleeding into other places.
No need to apologize for focusing on points of disagreement. And I’m grateful for the commentary and confusion, because it pointed to important questions about how to have good discourse and caused me to notice something I do frequently that is likely a mistake. It’s like finally having an editor, in the good way.
I’m not on the moderation team, but my perspective is that the two goals overlap and are fully compatible but largely distinct and need to be optimized for in different ways (see Tale of Alice Almost). And this is the situation in which you get a conflict between them, because norms are messy and you can’t avoid what happens in hard mode threads bleeding into other places.