Yeah, I didn’t want to make this a thread about discussing Eliezer’s opinion, so I didn’t put that front and center, but Eliezer only being happy to crosspost things if he has the ability to delete things was definitely a big consideration.
Here is my rough summary of how this plays into my current perspective on things:
1. Allowing users to moderate their own posts and set their own moderation policies on their personal blogs is something I wanted before we even talked to Eliezer about LW2 the first time.
2. Allowing users to moderate their own front-page posts is not something that Eliezer requested (I think he would be happy with them just being personal posts), but is a natural consequence of wanting to allow users to moderate their own posts, while also not giving up our ability to promote the best content to the front-page and to curated
3. Allowing users to delete things without a trace was a request by Eliezer, but is also something I thought about independently to deal with stuff like spam and repeated offenders (for example, Eugine has created over 100 comments on one of Ozy’s posts, and you don’t want all of them to show up as deleted stubs). I expect we wouldn’t have built the future as it currently stands without Eliezer, but I hadn’t actually considered a moderation logs page like the one Said pointed out, and I actually quite like that idea, and don’t expect Eliezer to object too much to it. So that might be a solution that makes everyone reasonably happy.
Yeah, I didn’t want to make this a thread about discussing Eliezer’s opinion, so I didn’t put that front and center, but Eliezer only being happy to crosspost things if he has the ability to delete things was definitely a big consideration.
Here is my rough summary of how this plays into my current perspective on things:
1. Allowing users to moderate their own posts and set their own moderation policies on their personal blogs is something I wanted before we even talked to Eliezer about LW2 the first time.
2. Allowing users to moderate their own front-page posts is not something that Eliezer requested (I think he would be happy with them just being personal posts), but is a natural consequence of wanting to allow users to moderate their own posts, while also not giving up our ability to promote the best content to the front-page and to curated
3. Allowing users to delete things without a trace was a request by Eliezer, but is also something I thought about independently to deal with stuff like spam and repeated offenders (for example, Eugine has created over 100 comments on one of Ozy’s posts, and you don’t want all of them to show up as deleted stubs). I expect we wouldn’t have built the future as it currently stands without Eliezer, but I hadn’t actually considered a moderation logs page like the one Said pointed out, and I actually quite like that idea, and don’t expect Eliezer to object too much to it. So that might be a solution that makes everyone reasonably happy.