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Comment author: gwern 26 February 2013 07:01:23PM 13 points [-]

The reputational damage to Less Wrong has been done. Is there really anything to be gained by flipping moderation policy?

The basilisk is now being linked on Marginal Revolution. Estimated site traffic: >3x gwern.net; per above, that is >16k uniques daily to the site.

What site will be next?

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 27 February 2013 09:05:16AM 0 points [-]

What site will be next?

More importantly, will endless meta-discussions like this make another site more likely or less likely to link it?

Comment author: gwern 27 February 2013 03:45:09PM *  6 points [-]

Will an abandonment of a disastrous policy be more or less disastrous? Well, when I put it that way, it suddenly seems obvious.

"The world around us redounds with opportunities, explodes with opportunities, which nearly all folk ignore because it would require them to violate a habit of thought; there are a thousand Hufflepuff bones waiting to be sharpened into spears ... I cannot quite comprehend what goes through people's minds when they repeat the same failed strategy over and over, but apparently it is an astonishingly rare realization that you can try something else."

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 27 February 2013 06:11:11PM *  2 points [-]

Less disastrous as in "people spending less time criticizing Eliezer's moderating skills"? Probably yes.

Less disastrous as in "people spending less time on LW discussing the 'basilisk'"? Probably no. I would expect at least dozen articles about this topic within the first year if the ban would be completely removed.

Less disastrous as in "people less likely to create more 'basilisk'-style comments"? Probably no. Seems that the policy prevented this successfully.

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