If I’m being honest, I’m much less concerned about the fact that So8res blocked you from commenting than I am by the fact that he deleted your comment.
The block was a reasonable action in my eyes to prevent more drama, but the deletion was demonstrative of being willing to suppress true information that would indicate his plan could fail catastrophically.
I do think there’s something to be said for @RobertM and @habryka’s concerns that it would be a bad thing to set a norm where any sorta-relevant post becomes an area to relitigate past drama, as drama has a tendency to consume everything, but as @GeneSmith had said, this almost certainly has a limiting principle, and I see less of a danger than usual here (though I am partial to @habryka’s solution of having the delete comment UI button be different).
A key part of the reason here is that the 1st footnote demonstrates a pattern of trying to deflect from more serious issues into more safe issue territory, which makes me much more suspicious that the reason for why TurnTrout’s comment was deleted was because of the more sensible reasons that Habryka and RobertM argued.
Let’s just say I’m much less willing to trust Nate’s reasoning without independent confirmation going forward.
The block was a reasonable action in my eyes to prevent more drama
Note that the block is not post-specific, but user-specific. Turntrout was banned from all So8res posts, not just this one comment thread with “drama.”
If you’re concerned about deleting negative comments, you should see blocking the people making them as effectively deleting their comments from every future post.
If I’m being honest, I’m much less concerned about the fact that So8res blocked you from commenting than I am by the fact that he deleted your comment.
The block was a reasonable action in my eyes to prevent more drama, but the deletion was demonstrative of being willing to suppress true information that would indicate his plan could fail catastrophically.
I do think there’s something to be said for @RobertM and @habryka’s concerns that it would be a bad thing to set a norm where any sorta-relevant post becomes an area to relitigate past drama, as drama has a tendency to consume everything, but as @GeneSmith had said, this almost certainly has a limiting principle, and I see less of a danger than usual here (though I am partial to @habryka’s solution of having the delete comment UI button be different).
A key part of the reason here is that the 1st footnote demonstrates a pattern of trying to deflect from more serious issues into more safe issue territory, which makes me much more suspicious that the reason for why TurnTrout’s comment was deleted was because of the more sensible reasons that Habryka and RobertM argued.
Let’s just say I’m much less willing to trust Nate’s reasoning without independent confirmation going forward.
Note that the block is not post-specific, but user-specific. Turntrout was banned from all So8res posts, not just this one comment thread with “drama.”
If you’re concerned about deleting negative comments, you should see blocking the people making them as effectively deleting their comments from every future post.