Otherwise, I’d suspect a large part of the readers of the post will not even know there is such a response disagreeing with the original (because they just stumbled upon the post, or they clicked on a link to it from elsewhere on LW, or were just browsing some tag or the “recent activity” tab, etc).
I think some UI thing in the space wouldn’t be crazy. If banning was going to be used more frequently, it’s something I would consider building (I would put it at the bottom of the comment section, but that’s still a reasonable place to find it).
(Not to mention that posts don’t even have a sticker at the bottom saying “the author has banned the following users from commenting on their posts: [...]”, which should absolutely appear if the point of allowing authors to ban commenters was actually to improve the record and discourse.
We have something kind of close. At the bottom of every comment section you see a link to the moderation log, which allows you to see who is banned from whose posts. If banning was a thing that happened reasonably frequently, changing it to say “Moderation Log (3 users banned from this post, 2 comments deleted)” or something like that, would be reasonable to me. But it happens so rarely that I currently don’t think it’s worth the development effort (but if people really care, I would accept a PR that adds something like that).
We have something kind of close. At the bottom of every comment section you see a link to the moderation log, which allows you to see who is banned from whose posts.
With respect, this is not close at all.
The UI element should explicitly list which users have been banned, without making anyone click on anything.
(And the list of deleted comments should explicitly list the authors of those comments, and link to the text of those comments in the moderation log.)
I agree with @sunwillrise: the current design is absolutely not what the feature would look like if it were actually designed to serve readers and improve discussions.
The feature was not designed for this purpose, it was mostly designed so that people who are interested in LW can generally see what kind of moderation actions are happening. I agree that if banning was more frequent I would add a more specific list (which is what I said, and you seem to have just ignored).
I don’t think a full list makes sense, just because of clutter, but a number seems pretty reasonable (and ideally some way of highlighting the UI element if indeed there is some kind of relevant thing happening).
I think some UI thing in the space wouldn’t be crazy. If banning was going to be used more frequently, it’s something I would consider building (I would put it at the bottom of the comment section, but that’s still a reasonable place to find it).
We have something kind of close. At the bottom of every comment section you see a link to the moderation log, which allows you to see who is banned from whose posts. If banning was a thing that happened reasonably frequently, changing it to say “Moderation Log (3 users banned from this post, 2 comments deleted)” or something like that, would be reasonable to me. But it happens so rarely that I currently don’t think it’s worth the development effort (but if people really care, I would accept a PR that adds something like that).
With respect, this is not close at all.
The UI element should explicitly list which users have been banned, without making anyone click on anything.
(And the list of deleted comments should explicitly list the authors of those comments, and link to the text of those comments in the moderation log.)
I agree with @sunwillrise: the current design is absolutely not what the feature would look like if it were actually designed to serve readers and improve discussions.
The feature was not designed for this purpose, it was mostly designed so that people who are interested in LW can generally see what kind of moderation actions are happening. I agree that if banning was more frequent I would add a more specific list (which is what I said, and you seem to have just ignored).
I don’t think a full list makes sense, just because of clutter, but a number seems pretty reasonable (and ideally some way of highlighting the UI element if indeed there is some kind of relevant thing happening).