So like, do you distrust writers using substack? Because substack writers can just ban people from commenting. Or more concretely, do you distrust Scott to garden his own space on ACX?
It’s normally out of my mind, but whenever I’m reminded of it, I’m like “damn, I wonder how many mistaken articles I read and didn’t realize it because the author banned or discouraged their best (would be) critiques.” (Substack has other problems though like lack of karma that makes it hard to find good comments anyway, which I would want to fix first.)
Giving authors the ability to ban people they don’t want commenting is so common that it feels like a Chesterton’s Fence to me.
It could also just be a race to the bottom to appeal to unhealthy motivation, kind of like YouTube creating Shorts to compete with TikTok.
It’s normally out of my mind, but whenever I’m reminded of it, I’m like “damn, I wonder how many mistaken articles I read and didn’t realize it because the author banned or discouraged their best (would be) critiques.” (Substack has other problems though like lack of karma that makes it hard to find good comments anyway, which I would want to fix first.)
It could also just be a race to the bottom to appeal to unhealthy motivation, kind of like YouTube creating Shorts to compete with TikTok.