RichardKennaway comments on Ritual Report: Schelling Day - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 April 2013 09:20:45PM 3 points [-]

I've previously marked V_V as a probable troll. It seems a lot of feeding is going on. This post in particular is not an appropriate place for it. I'm thinking of adding a term to the Deletion Policy for, well, this sort of thing on any post that reports a positive community effort - see Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate for the rationale.

When I was doing OB and the Sequences, I realized at one point that Caledonian was making it un-fun for me since each post was followed by antihedons from him, and that if I didn't start deleting his comments, I would probably stop continuing (though I certainly didn't know as much then about reinforcement psychology, I still appreciated this on some instinctive level). I'm not going to tolerate that kind of negative stimulus being applied to community organizers.

I think it might actually be a good idea to give any poster the power to delete replies in their post's comments thread - Facebook does this automatically and I don't think it's a problem in real life, except of course for the trolls themselves - but that would require development resources, and as ever, we have none.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 22 April 2013 12:21:55PM 10 points [-]

I'm not going to tolerate that kind of negative stimulus being applied to community organizers.

Yes.

I think it might actually be a good idea to give any poster the power to delete replies in their post's comments thread - Facebook does this automatically

No.

A Facebook page is a personal fiefdom within which one has absolute power (within the limits of what one's feudal superiors, i.e. the owners of Facebook, and beyond them the state, allow). The same applies to personal blogs. Making a post or a comment here puts it up for grabs by anyone. That is what a discussion forum (which this is) is for. I specifically do not want that power over replies to my posts here.