I wonder whether it would be a good idea to set a “controversial” (e.g. culture war) flag to some posts, and simply not allow new users to comment on those posts.
With some explanation, like: “These posts do not represent the intended content of Less Wrong, which is rationality, artificial intelligence, effective altruism, et cetera.”
To reduce the administrative work, we could assume by default that all articles are noncontroversial, and only set the flag to those where some problems happen or we explicitly expect them to happen. Maybe some keywords in content, such as “Trump” or “social justice”, could show a dialog whether the author wants to flag their article as “controversial (inaccessible to freshly registered users)”.
I wonder whether it would be a good idea to set a “controversial” (e.g. culture war) flag to some posts, and simply not allow new users to comment on those posts.
With some explanation, like: “These posts do not represent the intended content of Less Wrong, which is rationality, artificial intelligence, effective altruism, et cetera.”
To reduce the administrative work, we could assume by default that all articles are noncontroversial, and only set the flag to those where some problems happen or we explicitly expect them to happen. Maybe some keywords in content, such as “Trump” or “social justice”, could show a dialog whether the author wants to flag their article as “controversial (inaccessible to freshly registered users)”.