ChristianKl comments on Consider giving an explanation for your deletion this time around. "Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 July 2014 11:34:06PM 11 points [-]

Your decision seems very obviously wrong to me. I don't want to overrule you directly without further conversation, but I don't understand at all why you unbanned the post. There's a forum for ridiculously terribly written fanfiction, and it's fanfiction.net which is famous for taking everything. The post is of quality less than zero. Why should it be here?

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 July 2014 08:56:01AM 9 points [-]

Why should it be here?

That's not the question to ask when deleting posts. The question to ask when deleting posts is whether there's a reason to delete and hopefully whether that reason is based in rules that can be understood.

The karma system exists for punishing low quality content.

Comment author: MathiasZaman 10 July 2014 08:51:12AM 0 points [-]

To be fair, the karma system failed in this case.

(Not to say I agree with the deletion of the post, but it sat safely at positive karma when it got taken down.)