I quite dislike the idea of people being able to moderate their content in this fashion—that just isn’t what a public discussion is in my view—but thanks for being transparent about this change.
Yeah, I agree that there is an important distinction between a public discussion that you know isn’t censored in any way, and one that is intentionally being limiting in what can be said.
I would be worried about a world where the majority of frontpage posts was non-public in the sense you said, but do think that the marginal non-fully-public conversation doesn’t really cause much damage, as long as it’s easy to create a public conversation in another thread that isn’t limited in the same way.
I do think it’s very important for users to see whether a post is moderated in any specific way, which is why I tried to make the moderation guidelines at the top of the comment thread pretty noticeable.
I quite dislike the idea of people being able to moderate their content in this fashion—that just isn’t what a public discussion is in my view—but thanks for being transparent about this change.
Yeah, I agree that there is an important distinction between a public discussion that you know isn’t censored in any way, and one that is intentionally being limiting in what can be said.
I would be worried about a world where the majority of frontpage posts was non-public in the sense you said, but do think that the marginal non-fully-public conversation doesn’t really cause much damage, as long as it’s easy to create a public conversation in another thread that isn’t limited in the same way.
I do think it’s very important for users to see whether a post is moderated in any specific way, which is why I tried to make the moderation guidelines at the top of the comment thread pretty noticeable.