Right -- in my opinion it's better if it's obvious!
No status games, and again there's a total double standard here, my account is literally anonymous zero-status and I am talking to a bunch of high-status people who are pulling their ~100K twitter followers into this thread.
I've thought about these comments now over several hours and I do indeed think they are quite bad. I have deleted one and may delete/lock others others in the subthreads.
It's tricky to precisely specify the badness with explicit principles, but won't succeed entirely here. A very strong element of the badness in the first comment above ("Your whole career...") is leveraging negative intuitions and associations about working in porn that feel misguided and also without justification or explanation of relevance. Similarly, while I feel that accusations that ...
I banned your account. It would have been ideal to message/comment about it, but I didn't have the time/attention to properly review or comment yesterday. Seeing an account at -168 karma with multiple severely negative comments, it seemed better to intervene before things got more out of hand, instead of doing nothing, even though I didn't have the time to get all the context on the relevant thread.
I will hopefully get another chance in another couple of hours to review the thread and think about your comments. Please don't comment in the meantime. If you want to contact me, use ruby@lesswrong.com, or the Intercom in the bottom right corner.
i would like less of this kind of dynamic.
Me too, but the community leaders (of which Aella is one) have legitimized it. I think the LW leadership is pretty diffuse and there isn't a clear power center (would Eliezer really come out criticizing Aella for influencing an ongoing issue like this? I doubt it.) so if anything it'll happen more often.
I don't really know what you can do here and I think the best thing is to actually slowly move your work off this forum and onto somewhere where you trust the moderation team (e.g. my original account blueiris was banned 6 hours ago without warning purely for the comments on this post). We're in a different world now.