eirenicon comments on The Nature of Offense - Less Wrong

86 Post author: Wei_Dai 23 July 2009 11:15AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 July 2009 05:10:24PM 18 points [-]

Excellent and important point. I think that's a part of my uneasiness that I hadn't been able to verbalize abstractly up until now.

In order to have a comment policy in place, the act of pointing out language-to-avoid should have a standard and formal form which does not decrease the status of the pointed-out speaker, and perhaps even more importantly, should not increase the status of the pointer-outer.

Comment author: eirenicon 23 July 2009 06:11:54PM 1 point [-]

The only way I can see that working is to avoid doing it publicly, either by telling someone in a message or by some other function, like a 'Private Reply' button that leaves a comment only the target commenter can read.