Can your or someone give a quick summary of what has been deleted?
I haven’t been paying attention to private_messaging, and haven’t noticed any crap from that direction, so maybe you’re doing a good job with that one. What kinds of trollish things were deleted?
I do notice peterdjones’ obnoxiously prolific philosophical confusion. Is that grounds for deletion, or was he doing worse things?
I saw a thread claiming to have solved decision theory in a way that was very likely wrong, but instead of getting downvoted, it simply disappeared. Was that you, or the poster? If you, why?
Is there other stuff?
Mostly I’d like to know if it’s just crap and trolling, or if there are topics/ideas that you would rather were not mentioned. Also is this just in the interests of the LW community, or something more grey. (I’m fine with grey, if you have a good reason.)
I’d much prefer loud public executions to quiet censorship. On the *chans, for most crap, they leave the shitty posts up and put a big message that the user was banned. This is quite a bit funner and less scary. EDIT: someone pointed out that this sort of thing associates more positive feelings with the moderators, because people who agree actually get to see the mods doing things they agree with. /EDIT
like this, except actually interpreted:
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
Of course this is just my humble opinion, glorious leader.
Peterdjones, in addition to doing all of that, said that trolling was “just teasing”. Can’t be bothered to look up the exact thread but it was when I announced that I was designating him a troll.
I didn’t delete the decision-theory solution comment, in fact I have no idea what it’s about. Presumably this was a user who deleted things themselves. I’ve asked if it’s possible to at least have mod deletions show the user who was deleted, and user deletions not show anything (thus making it possible to distinguish mod deletions from user deletions).
Aside from the one info hazard, it’s all crap.
We have no software ability to whole ban users but I do announce publicly at the point where I consider a user a troll.
Can your or someone give a quick summary of what has been deleted?
I haven’t been paying attention to private_messaging, and haven’t noticed any crap from that direction, so maybe you’re doing a good job with that one. What kinds of trollish things were deleted?
I do notice peterdjones’ obnoxiously prolific philosophical confusion. Is that grounds for deletion, or was he doing worse things?
I saw a thread claiming to have solved decision theory in a way that was very likely wrong, but instead of getting downvoted, it simply disappeared. Was that you, or the poster? If you, why?
Is there other stuff?
Mostly I’d like to know if it’s just crap and trolling, or if there are topics/ideas that you would rather were not mentioned. Also is this just in the interests of the LW community, or something more grey. (I’m fine with grey, if you have a good reason.)
I’d much prefer loud public executions to quiet censorship. On the *chans, for most crap, they leave the shitty posts up and put a big message that the user was banned. This is quite a bit funner and less scary. EDIT: someone pointed out that this sort of thing associates more positive feelings with the moderators, because people who agree actually get to see the mods doing things they agree with. /EDIT
like this, except actually interpreted:
Of course this is just my humble opinion, glorious leader.
Peterdjones, in addition to doing all of that, said that trolling was “just teasing”. Can’t be bothered to look up the exact thread but it was when I announced that I was designating him a troll.
I didn’t delete the decision-theory solution comment, in fact I have no idea what it’s about. Presumably this was a user who deleted things themselves. I’ve asked if it’s possible to at least have mod deletions show the user who was deleted, and user deletions not show anything (thus making it possible to distinguish mod deletions from user deletions).
Aside from the one info hazard, it’s all crap.
We have no software ability to whole ban users but I do announce publicly at the point where I consider a user a troll.