I’m still somewhat uncomfortable with authors being able to moderate front-page comments, but I suppose it could be an interesting experiment to see if they use this power responsibly or if it gets abused.
I think that there should also be an option to collapse comments (as per Reddit), instead of actually deleting them. I would suggest that very few comments are actually so bad that they need to be deleted, most of the time it’s simply a matter of reducing the incentive to incite controversy in order to get more people replying to your comment.
Anyway, I’m really hoping that it encourages some of the old guard to post more of their content on Less Wrong.
I’m still somewhat uncomfortable with authors being able to moderate front-page comments, but I suppose it could be an interesting experiment to see if they use this power responsibly or if it gets abused.
I think that there should also be an option to collapse comments (as per Reddit), instead of actually deleting them. I would suggest that very few comments are actually so bad that they need to be deleted, most of the time it’s simply a matter of reducing the incentive to incite controversy in order to get more people replying to your comment.
Anyway, I’m really hoping that it encourages some of the old guard to post more of their content on Less Wrong.
I don’t think it’s an interesting experiment. The outcome is obvious: it will be abused to silence competing points of view.