No, it isn't that simple.
All this could have been avoided if you had merely deigned to discuss the wiki post in question with me. I shouldn't have to make a discussion post on LessWrong to get your attention. I believe that we deserve to be treated with respect. Deleting my comments, then refusing to discuss it, then coming here and saying "I am still dictator" without even enunciating any policy for the wiki, and thinking that's the end of it, is not treating us with respect.
If the policy is "Eliezer will do whatever he pleases", I respectfully request that you put that on the home page of the wiki.
If this happened every day, I could understand that you were tired, and weary of the burden of overseeing the wiki. But apparently it's only happened once in two years. Furthermore, I've contributed about a hundred posts to LessWrong, some of which were good. I'm not some random newbie who made an account and started editing the Wiki.
I don't really care about the wiki. It's about respect. After spending a thousand hours providing content for your website, I'd like to get at least a little.
I don't really care about the wiki. It's about respect.
An excellent argument for PhilGoetz not having any ability to edit the wiki.
The LessWrong wiki contains a biased and offensive entry on group selection. I edited the wiki page, to append some points representing an opposing view at the end. Eliezer removed my points, leaving only a link at the end. He said he thought my points were wrong, but would not say which points he thought were wrong, or why he thought they were wrong.
Is it reasonable for me to restore my changes over Eliezer's edit, since he is unwilling to give reasons for his edit? What sort of rights or privileges does Eliezer have over LW or LW wiki content?
(Please try not to turn this into a discussion of group selection.)
ADDED: Please go meta, folks. I am not trying to argue about this specific Wiki article. I am not asking for redress. Specifics about this wiki article are irrelevant. I am asking whether this is still a benevolent dictatorship.
The relevant questions are not what the appropriate form of debate is, or anything about this wiki article. The relevant questions are:
The Wiki main page says, "The wiki about rationality that anyone who is logged in can edit". Apparently that is a lie. If I do not have as much right as Eliezer does to write a wiki post, I want that point explicitly spelled out.