If I do not have as much right as Eliezer does to write a wiki post, I want that point explicitly spelled out.
This is the problem.
I am reminded of when the execrable post “The Conjunction Fallacy Does Not Exist” was added to the main page, Eliezer removed it, in his words, ”...on grounds that I’ve never seen anything voted down that far before...”
He removed it because he felt like it, and he felt like it for two reasons: because the post was downvoted to oblivion and because Eliezer didn’t see anything good about it (neither did anyone else). There was no explicit policy about what voting results would get something off the main page, and there still isn’t.
The policy of not having any policies except post hoc is not good policy.
This is the problem.
I am reminded of when the execrable post “The Conjunction Fallacy Does Not Exist” was added to the main page, Eliezer removed it, in his words, ”...on grounds that I’ve never seen anything voted down that far before...”
He removed it because he felt like it, and he felt like it for two reasons: because the post was downvoted to oblivion and because Eliezer didn’t see anything good about it (neither did anyone else). There was no explicit policy about what voting results would get something off the main page, and there still isn’t.
The policy of not having any policies except post hoc is not good policy.
In all fairness, it was a really awful post, and it was downvoted through the lithosphere.