Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation) — LessWrong
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It's been roughly 7 years since the LessWrong user-base voted on whether it's time to close down shop and become an archive, or to move towards the L…

this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who’s actively being a drain on the site

here’s his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline “wordy racist fest”:

A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don’t need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.

He gets us! He really gets us!

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
    14·
    15 days ago

    Indeed, the LinkedIn attractor appears to be the memetically most successful way groups relate to their ingroup members, while the sneer attractor governs how they relate to their outgroups.

    AND OLIVER COMES IN FROM THE TOP ROPE WITH THE HOTDOG COSTUME

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
      18·
      15 days ago

      Moderators need the authority to, at some level, police the vibe of your comments, even without a fully mechanical explanation of how that vibe arises from the specific words you chose.

      hey everyone i am going to become top mod on this forum, now let me just reinvent human interaction from first principles