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

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Comment author: SilasBarta 13 September 2012 08:28:10PM 2 points [-]

This makes the site enforce a tyranny of the majority.

It's not clear that there is a "tyranny" with typical connotations, so the word shouldn't be used without clarification.

Hm, how about "philosopher-king of the majority"?