Bobertron comments on Practicing what you preach - Less Wrong Discussion
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As I understand your post, the behavior you mean is talking about rationality without putting it into practice. But the way it is written sound to me like you mean accusing LW oftalking about rationality without putting it into practice.
Instead of "leveling up" you could have taken "efficient charity" as an example. I think you like that article better, so it seems more honest to me to take it as an example of a more practical post. Mentioning both articles like that makes it too obvious that you singled out "leveling up" for rhetoric reasons.
I'm very skeptical about those following points. You did not give convincing arguments for them.
That seems like bad advice. I think your guidelines are advocating reversed stupidity.
I think you are doing it wrong. Declaring Crocker's rule allows others to be harsh to you, it doesn't allow you to be harsh to others.
My reading of TwistingFingers's words was that s/he did mean "please feel free to be harsh about me", not "I wish to be free to be harsh about others". I don't see what other interpretation is possible, given "on the writing style of this post".
I think your interpretation is correct, and that's how I interpreted it, but I can understand Bobertron's interpretation as well. He thought TwistingFingers was declaring Crocker's rules as a sort of apology for the accusatory "writing style of [the] post", which would as Bobertron suggests be using the declaration in the wrong direction.
I only say this because you wrote: