Status quo bias: I'm reasonably sure that if this policy had been in place from Day 1, very few people would have given it a second thought.
I remember that one way to combat status quo bias is re-framing. I am about to read the new deletion policy for the first time, but I am going to consciously frame it as "this is a deletion policy already in place for a site I am considering joining" rather than "this is a change to a deletion policy for a site I have already joined."
[Goes to read the policy]
In that frame, I would like the deletion policy and it wouldn't otherwise discourage me from joining the site. I would appreciate that the moderators would be taking moderation ser...
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Deletion_policy
This is my attempt to codify the informal rules I've been working by.
I'll leave this post up for a bit, but strongly suspect that it will have to be deleted not too long thereafter. I haven't been particularly encouraged to try responding to comments, either. Nonetheless, if there's something I missed, let me know.