Even if you feel that judging the quality of someone's thought requires reporting any particularly offensive statements in their other writings, you could at least do so without encouraging mindkill and frothing. Arguably we shouldn't be discussing Moldbug in the first place.
Arguably we shouldn't be discussing Moldbug in the first place.
I more or less agree (for a different reason as you can see), however, I'm against pretty much any restrictions on LW topics provided even a modicum of intelligence being shown.
So if I'm an opponent (and yes, don't waste time pointing out my self-identification as such and pre-written bottom line), I don't like staying silent and I don't think that "mind-kill" is at all a net negative to LW discussion... heck, I'm gonna have oh-so-irresponsible fun.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
(I plan to make these threads from now on. Downvote if you disapprove. If I miss one, feel free to do it yourself.)