Azathoth123 comments on Open thread, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lmm 29 October 2014 11:11:17PM 2 points [-]

I'm not being utopian, I'm giving pragmatic advice based on empirical experience. I think online communities like this one fail more often by allowing bad people to continue being bad (because they feel the need to be scrupulously fair and transparent) than they do by being too authoritarian.

Comment author: Azathoth123 02 November 2014 04:39:21AM 3 points [-]

The thing is from what I've heard the problem isn't so much sociopaths as ideological entryists.