I had sent this in PM to Aella yesterday. For the benefit of Gwillen and others curious about frontpage standards, here are some thoughts:
I haven’t actually talked to other LW mods about the post yet so this is mostly my off-the-cuff guesses rather than dedicated LW-site-ruling. But some things about the post that made me hesitant to frontpage:
it seemed like there were at least 3 references to Leverage-specifically (or, pretty closeby. One link to Geoff Anders tweet, two Zoe quotes, which in context feels like it’s positioning this post to relate to the overall Leverage debate)
there was also the reference to Aubrey de Gray (not exactly a currently live conflict but neither is it long forgotten)
the end of the post stakes out a fairly explicit conflicty-frame (i.e, “this is war”), which makes the previous examples feel even more like ammunition in the conflict than they might have been.
The frontpage rules are a bit vague here, but the way I think about them is that frontpage posts should be more about giving people models, and posts that are aiming to engage in a political fight stay on personal blog (partly because they are drama magnets generally, but moreover because while often it’s important to have political fights, it’s better if the people who actually have context on those fights are the ones participating in them).
(note that all the previous Leverage-related threads haven’t been frontpaged)
I do think it’s possible to edit the post a bit to address those issues, but before asking you to go off and do that work I’d want to get some opinions from other mods [who have so far been busy].
I had sent this in PM to Aella yesterday. For the benefit of Gwillen and others curious about frontpage standards, here are some thoughts:
I haven’t actually talked to other LW mods about the post yet so this is mostly my off-the-cuff guesses rather than dedicated LW-site-ruling. But some things about the post that made me hesitant to frontpage:
it seemed like there were at least 3 references to Leverage-specifically (or, pretty closeby. One link to Geoff Anders tweet, two Zoe quotes, which in context feels like it’s positioning this post to relate to the overall Leverage debate)
there was also the reference to Aubrey de Gray (not exactly a currently live conflict but neither is it long forgotten)
the end of the post stakes out a fairly explicit conflicty-frame (i.e, “this is war”), which makes the previous examples feel even more like ammunition in the conflict than they might have been.
The frontpage rules are a bit vague here, but the way I think about them is that frontpage posts should be more about giving people models, and posts that are aiming to engage in a political fight stay on personal blog (partly because they are drama magnets generally, but moreover because while often it’s important to have political fights, it’s better if the people who actually have context on those fights are the ones participating in them).
(note that all the previous Leverage-related threads haven’t been frontpaged)
I do think it’s possible to edit the post a bit to address those issues, but before asking you to go off and do that work I’d want to get some opinions from other mods [who have so far been busy].