shminux has helpfully provided an example of the sort of fake poll that should have no place here.
And, even more helpfully, provided an example of it already being handled successfully by existing measures. He was downvoted extensively and subjected to extensive social pressure via comments.
Explain how not to be an asshole? Possibly, but I don’t think anyone here actually needs an explanation, beyond pointing out that anything you shouldn’t say for that reason in an ordinary comment, you shouldn’t say in a poll either. The slightly different sort of thing that a poll is doesn’t change the standard.
I don’t see this as anything to do with moral theory. It’s pretty much general currency what constitutes being an asshole. I’ve seen it set out in umpteen comment policies on blogs, which often explicitly summarise it as “don’t be an asshole”, or even “don’t be an asshole—but you knew that already”.
I don’t see this as anything to do with moral theory.
I don’t understand what you mean here. Is your concept of moral theory only something for thought experiments involving Omega but to abstract to apply to day-to-day life?
No. I mean it in the same sense that we do not need to have a discussion of moral theory in order to agree on what actions we are talking about, when we talk about theft. We don’t even need to have a discussion of moral theory to agree that we’d rather people didn’t behave that way.
Could you taboo “asshole”?
It’s fairly taboo already.
shminux has helpfully provided an example of the sort of fake poll that should have no place here.
While I agree with the last part of your sentence, it is still a real poll.
And, even more helpfully, provided an example of it already being handled successfully by existing measures. He was downvoted extensively and subjected to extensive social pressure via comments.
Explain how not to be an asshole? Possibly, but I don’t think anyone here actually needs an explanation, beyond pointing out that anything you shouldn’t say for that reason in an ordinary comment, you shouldn’t say in a poll either. The slightly different sort of thing that a poll is doesn’t change the standard.
And I was hoping to extract your moral theory from you.
I don’t see this as anything to do with moral theory. It’s pretty much general currency what constitutes being an asshole. I’ve seen it set out in umpteen comment policies on blogs, which often explicitly summarise it as “don’t be an asshole”, or even “don’t be an asshole—but you knew that already”.
I don’t understand what you mean here. Is your concept of moral theory only something for thought experiments involving Omega but to abstract to apply to day-to-day life?
No. I mean it in the same sense that we do not need to have a discussion of moral theory in order to agree on what actions we are talking about, when we talk about theft. We don’t even need to have a discussion of moral theory to agree that we’d rather people didn’t behave that way.