Kaj_Sotala comments on European Community Weekend 2014 retrospective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 30 April 2014 09:51:26AM 1 point [-]

Perhaps "Please hug me," "Please ask first," and "Please don't hug"?

I kind of assumed that given the existence of an explicit "no hugs" and an explicit "yay hugs" sticker, someone with neither would count as "please ask". But apparently this wasn't a universally shared assumption.

Comment author: Vaniver 30 April 2014 03:26:13PM 2 points [-]

I would assume someone without a tag is operating under normal protocols, in which asking people to hug them is often weird.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 April 2014 03:57:23PM 1 point [-]

But so is hugging strangers.

(And the “normal protocols” differ from place to place, so in an international meeting...)