I think in my whole life I have once seen a person come back because another person left, and they didn't stay long anyway. Broadly speaking I don't think this ever works.
1I think this only works if your standards for posts are in sync with those of the outside world. Otherwise, you're operating under incompatible status models and cannot sustain your community standards against outside pressure; you will always be outcompeted by the outside world (who can pretty much always offer more status than you can simply by volume) unless you can maintain the worth of your respect, and you cannot do that by copying outside appraisal.
I think you failed to establish that the long, well-written and highly-upvoted critiques lived in the larger LW archipelago, so there's a hole in your existence proof. On that basis, I would surmise that on priors Said assumed you were referring to comments or on-site posts.
Sounds like you should create PokemonBench.
I don't understand it but it does make me feel happy.
Haven't heard back yet...
edit: Heard back!
Okay, I'll do that, but why do I have to send an email...?
Like, why isn't the how-to like just in a comment? Alternately, why can't I select Lightcone as an option on Effektiv-Spenden?
Unless there's some legal reason, this seems like a weird unforced own-goal.
I'm very good friends with someone who is persistently critical and it has imo largely improved my mental health, fwiw, by forcing me to construct a functioning and well-maintained ego which I didn't really have before.