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Slipper slopes work in both directions. Each time you don't strike down injustice, it becomes a bit easier to walk by the next time. I'd sooner have Marginal Value > Marginal Cost than Marginal Value < Marginal Cost and a lower Average Value.
Bad impressions work in both directions. When other people come to a community full of self-purported rationalists, and they see someone presenting stupid, low-status, incendary comments and being treated as worthy of respect, it makes LW look stupid, low-status and incendary because of the Representativeness Heuristic.
Obveously there is a continuum between anarchy and banning everything, and both extremes are local minima. The issue is to judge the local gradient
Upvoted for valid point. I agree, but I think there is enough of a difference between 'being treated as worthy of respect' and 'not being banned' that we can probably ride in the middle ground comfortably without any significant image damage.
On consideration, though... maybe I'm prejudiced against banning because of the sense of finality of it. I guess it's not hard to make a new account.
I'm still opposed to deleting past comments though, because deleted comments make a mess of the history.