After talking to someone about this a little, I’m a bit more sympathetic to Soares’s actions here; I think they were probably a mistake for pragmatic reasons, but I’m also sympathetic to arguments that LessWrong is better off if it’s a space where people enforce whatever commenting policies they like, and I don’t want to be part of social punishment if I don’t endorse the social punishment. So I partially retract the first part of my comment. Idk, I might think more about this.
After talking to someone about this a little, I’m a bit more sympathetic to Soares’s actions here; I think they were probably a mistake for pragmatic reasons, but I’m also sympathetic to arguments that LessWrong is better off if it’s a space where people enforce whatever commenting policies they like, and I don’t want to be part of social punishment if I don’t endorse the social punishment. So I partially retract the first part of my comment. Idk, I might think more about this.