This is a fine guideline (least surprise in almost all public interactions). But the actual difficult or interesting decisions are the exceptions. Cases that would surprise some, but not others. Cases where the surprise is that it came up in the first place.
Without examining some specific cases, one cannot agree nor disagree whether any given moderator is too surprising or not surprising enough.
Considering some specific cases would be good. Unfortunately I wrote this as consolidation of gestalt impressions over an extended period, and didn’t save any of the specific examples that inspired it (because I wasn’t planning a writeup at the time). I believe this generalizes better than you think, but it would be much better to back up that assertion.
This is a fine guideline (least surprise in almost all public interactions). But the actual difficult or interesting decisions are the exceptions. Cases that would surprise some, but not others. Cases where the surprise is that it came up in the first place.
Without examining some specific cases, one cannot agree nor disagree whether any given moderator is too surprising or not surprising enough.
Considering some specific cases would be good. Unfortunately I wrote this as consolidation of gestalt impressions over an extended period, and didn’t save any of the specific examples that inspired it (because I wasn’t planning a writeup at the time). I believe this generalizes better than you think, but it would be much better to back up that assertion.