After chatting for a bit about what to do with low-quality new posts and comments, while being transparent and inspectably fair, the LW Team is currently somewhat optimistic about adding a section to lesswrong.com/moderation which lists all comments/posts that we’ve rejected for quality.
We haven’t built it yet, so for immediate future we’ll just be strong downvoting content that doesn’t meet our quality bar. And for immediate future, if existing users in good standing want to defend particular pieces as worth inclusion they can do so here.
This is not a place for users who submitted rejected content to write an appeal (they can do that via PM, although we don’t promise to reply since often we were just pretty confident in our take and the user hasn’t offered new information), and I’ll be deleting such comments that appear here.
(Is this maximally transparent? No. But, consider that it’s still dramatically more transparent than a university or journal)
j/k I just tried this for 5 minutes and a) I don’t actually want to approve users to make new posts (which is necessary currently to make their post appear), b) there’s no current transparent solution that isn’t a giant pain. So, not doing this for now, but we’ll hopefully build a Rejected Content section at some point.
After chatting for a bit about what to do with low-quality new posts and comments, while being transparent and inspectably fair, the LW Team is currently somewhat optimistic about adding a section tolesswrong.com/moderationwhich lists all comments/posts that we’ve rejected for quality.We haven’t built it yet, so for immediate future we’ll just be strong downvoting content that doesn’t meet our quality bar. And for immediate future, if existing users in good standing want to defend particular pieces as worth inclusion they can do so here.This isnota place for users who submitted rejected content to write an appeal (they can do that via PM, although we don’t promise to reply since often we were just pretty confident in our take and the user hasn’t offered new information), and I’ll be deleting such comments that appear here.(Is this maximally transparent? No. But, consider that it’s still dramatically more transparent than a university or journal)j/k I just tried this for 5 minutes and a) I don’t actually want to approve users to make new posts (which is necessary currently to make their post appear), b) there’s no current transparent solution that isn’t a giant pain. So, not doing this for now, but we’ll hopefully build a Rejected Content section at some point.