If someone finds interacting with you very unpleasant and you don’t understand quite why, it’s often bad form to loudly complain about it every time they don’t want to interact with you any more, even if you have an uncharitable hypothesis as to why.
If I was in this circumstance, I would be pretty worried about my own biases, and ask neutral or potentially less biased parties whether there might be more charitable and reasonable hypotheses why that person doesn’t want to interact with me. If there isn’t though, why shouldn’t I complain and e.g. make it common knowledge that my valuable criticism is being suppressed? (Obviously I would also take into consideration social/political realities, not make enemies I can’t afford to make, etc.)
I’m having a hard time seeing how this reply is hooking up to what I wrote. I didn’t say critics, I spoke much more generally. If someone wants to keep their distance from you because you have bad body odor, or because they think your job is unethical, and you either don’t know this or disagree, it’s pretty bad social form to go around loudly complaining every time they keep their distance from you. It makes it more socially costly for them to act in accordance with their preferences and makes a bunch of unnecessary social conflict. I’m pretty sure this is obvious and this doesn’t change if you’ve suddenly developed a ‘criticism’ of them.
But most people aren’t using this feature, so to the extent that LW hasn’t degraded (and that’s due to moderation), isn’t it mainly because of the site moderators and karma voters? The benefits of having a few people occasionally moderate their own spaces hardly seems worth the cost (to potential critics and people like me who really value criticism) of not knowing when their critiques might be unilaterally deleted or banned by post authors. I mean aside from the “benefit” of attracting/retaining the authors who demand such unilateral powers.
I mean, I think it pretty plausible that LW would be doing even better than it is with more people doing more gardening and making more moderated spaces within it, archipelago-style.
I read you questioning my honesty and motivations a bunch (e.g. you have a few times mentioning that I probably only care about this because of status reasons I cannot mention or to attract certain authors and that my behavior is not consistent with believing in users moderating their own posts being a good idea) which are of course fine hypotheses for you to consider. After spending probably over 40 hours writing this month explaining why I think authors moderating their posts is a good idea and making some defense of myself and my reasoning, I think I’ve done my duty in showing up to engage with this semi-prosecution for the time being, and will let ppl come to their own conclusions. (Perhaps I will write up a summary of the discussion at some point.)
I’m having a hard time seeing how this reply is hooking up to what I wrote. I didn’t say critics, I spoke much more generally. If someone wants to keep their distance from you because you have bad body odor, or because they think your job is unethical, and you either don’t know this or disagree, it’s pretty bad social form to go around loudly complaining every time they keep their distance from you. It makes it more socially costly for them to act in accordance with their preferences and makes a bunch of unnecessary social conflict. I’m pretty sure this is obvious and this doesn’t change if you’ve suddenly developed a ‘criticism’ of them.
I mean, I think it pretty plausible that LW would be doing even better than it is with more people doing more gardening and making more moderated spaces within it, archipelago-style.
I read you questioning my honesty and motivations a bunch (e.g. you have a few times mentioning that I probably only care about this because of status reasons I cannot mention or to attract certain authors and that my behavior is not consistent with believing in users moderating their own posts being a good idea) which are of course fine hypotheses for you to consider. After spending probably over 40 hours writing this month explaining why I think authors moderating their posts is a good idea and making some defense of myself and my reasoning, I think I’ve done my duty in showing up to engage with this semi-prosecution for the time being, and will let ppl come to their own conclusions. (Perhaps I will write up a summary of the discussion at some point.)