Noting that the author deleted a critical comment which was somewhat rude but IMO made some reasonable points. That’s fair enough, but in conjunction with the way the site handles deletions this strikes me as bad, since there’s no way of (a) seeing which user posted the deleted comment (this might be a bug?) (b) examining the text of deleted comments. Together this means that you can’t distinguish cases where a post attracts no criticism(an important signal) and cases where there were critical comments that were deleted, and you can’t examine deleted criticisms.
I find it ironic that the author of a post warning of the risks of dictatorships becoming more widespread throughout the world has a moderation policy of “deleting anything they judge to be counterproductive”.
Without knowing what was deleted, I can take a guess why. The author has a long history of an inflammatory commentary style, while nevertheless making good points (same tbh). I’d love to see them come back and write with a more calibrated level of inflammation—ie, definitely not none, this is an “immune system, activate” post, which is why it needs the politics label. But there’s still quite a lot of dissent, and the deleted comment author is free to post the same thing again elsewhere, eg a shortform—where it can then be read by looking at the deleted comments list.
You can see who wrote the deleted comment here (and there’s also a link this page at the bottom of every post’s comment section). Not sure if we intend to hide the username on the comment itself, will check.
One can cross-reference the moderation log with “Deleted by alyssavance, Today at 8:19 AM” to determine who made any particular deleted comment. Since this information is already public, does it make sense to preserve the information directly on the comment, something like “[comment by Czynski deleted]”?
Noting that the author deleted a critical comment which was somewhat rude but IMO made some reasonable points. That’s fair enough, but in conjunction with the way the site handles deletions this strikes me as bad, since there’s no way of (a) seeing which user posted the deleted comment (this might be a bug?) (b) examining the text of deleted comments. Together this means that you can’t distinguish cases where a post attracts no criticism(an important signal) and cases where there were critical comments that were deleted, and you can’t examine deleted criticisms.
I find it ironic that the author of a post warning of the risks of dictatorships becoming more widespread throughout the world has a moderation policy of “deleting anything they judge to be counterproductive”.
Without knowing what was deleted, I can take a guess why. The author has a long history of an inflammatory commentary style, while nevertheless making good points (same tbh). I’d love to see them come back and write with a more calibrated level of inflammation—ie, definitely not none, this is an “immune system, activate” post, which is why it needs the politics label. But there’s still quite a lot of dissent, and the deleted comment author is free to post the same thing again elsewhere, eg a shortform—where it can then be read by looking at the deleted comments list.
I tried being more polite many times over the last months on Discord. All it got was dismissal, because anxietybrain is anxietybrain.
That may be why you believe it to have been dismissed. Sometimes reasonable minds can disagree about predictions.
You can see who wrote the deleted comment here (and there’s also a link this page at the bottom of every post’s comment section). Not sure if we intend to hide the username on the comment itself, will check.
On the linked page, I see “[anonymous]” for all values of the user field.
Oh, that might just be me having admin permissions, whoops. I’ll double-check what the intended behavior is.
(Update: I just merged a PR that should fix the issue, i.e. make it clear who’s comments got deleted. Should be live in about 7 minutes)
One can cross-reference the moderation log with “Deleted by alyssavance, Today at 8:19 AM” to determine who made any particular deleted comment. Since this information is already public, does it make sense to preserve the information directly on the comment, something like “[comment by Czynski deleted]”?