I disagree that this is an applause light, since an opposing claim like “communities are better when they have more jokes as long as these don’t make people feel unwelcome” is pretty reasonable too. And including a proposal for how to change the norm seems like a bad bar, since posting on the EA Forum is probably the first plank that would occur to me in a plan to change the norms.
I disagree that this is an applause light, since an opposing claim like “communities are better when they have more jokes as long as these don’t make people feel unwelcome” is pretty reasonable too. And including a proposal for how to change the norm seems like a bad bar, since posting on the EA Forum is probably the first plank that would occur to me in a plan to change the norms.
Further evidence that it’s not an applause light: vast majority of respondents to this Twitter poll about the subject say the jokes have not crossed a line: https://twitter.com/nathanpmyoung/status/1557811908555804674?s=21&t=wdOUd5m4d_ZqiJ-12TLM9Q