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Alicorn comments on Meta: LW Policy: When to prohibit Alice from replying to Bob's arguments? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: SilasBarta 12 September 2012 03:29AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 12 September 2012 06:50:43AM 0 points [-]

Account age isn't a guarantee - I know Will has older accounts than his current main, although I haven't seen them in circulation recently - but I'll abide by your conservatism here.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 September 2012 06:57:02AM *  8 points [-]

I'm not saying that the age of an account (strongly) argues against the account being Newsome's, I'm saying it (significantly) increases the disutility of wrongful banning. Which in turn argues for requiring a higher level of certainty for banning an older account. Hence, the distinction between "plausible" and "conclusive" becomes relevant, where it wouldn't be so for a new account that only had a few very-bad-and-highly-suspicious comments.