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If the point was to "make a good impression" by distorting the impression given by people on the list to potential donors, maybe a more effective strategy is to shut up and do it, instead of making an announcement about it and causing a ruckus. "Disappear" the problems quietly and discretely.
This reminds me of the phyg business. Prompting long discussion threads about how "We are not a phyg! We are not a phyg!" is not recommended behavior if you don't want people to think you're not a phyg.
People notice when this happens, and the resulting uproar might have been worse; then accusations would be flying about lack of transparency.
Might have been. I didn't see it, and I didn't see any brouhaha over a deleted post. Was there one? More than the 318 comments in this thread announcing the policy? I see lots of downvotes for EY. I don't think it's going well.
The advantage of just doing it is that many people will not notice it at all, and those that notice it have seen the offending post, and so have a concrete context to go by. When people haven't seen the threat, they talk about censorship. My guess is that in a concrete case, at worst it will come across as an overreaction to some boorish behavior.
If the concrete case really involved stifling ideas, I'd expect people to make a huge stink about it. The big stink about poilcy, and undetected by my stink about the concrete case tells me that people are getting their undies in a bunch over nothing.