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It's worth noting that the author's non-transparent heavy-handedness towards "niceness" in meta has driven away at least one of the self-governing, power-to-the
by prodigal_erik 15y ago
It's worth noting that the author's non-transparent heavy-handedness towards "niceness" in meta has driven away at least one of the self-governing, power-to-the-people moderators he advocates.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473029 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473029
I'm disturbed by the idea that concealment is considered an appropriate response to social problems you don't know how to solve (I'm aware pg does it also).
- tptacek 15y agoSpolsky's response to that was, to me, so authoritative that I found myself physically nodding my head. I am not always nice, but I find it hard to argue about the value of that norm. So I read your comment as a bit of a "thrown elbow". What you call "non-transparent heavy handedness", I think many reasonable people could call "active nurturing and cultivation of a functioning community". You don't have to like that community. Start your own.
- codinghorror 15y agoJust to clarify, all that was over a single removed unconstructive comment (not a question or answer) on a meta. Literally. Does it get more trivial than that? The topic of the blog post was about removal of users from the main site, which is a far more serious matter.
- shaggyfrog 15y agoI think it's up to Dr. Clark to decide how "trivial" a matter it is to see his words unilaterally scrubbed, as if they never existed. And as far as the meta sites go, I've found meta.SO to be an echo chamber; ideas aren't voted up or down so much on how they contribute to the discussion (as it goes on HN), but on whether or not how much the cool clique agrees.