I agree that the current norms are probably not clear enough to cover this situation, we are thinking about adding more specific ones.
As a non-american, I also initially found the lack of use-mention distinction to be very counterintuitive. But itâs culturally very important for a very large fraction of forum readers, so I would also ask you to edit your initial comment. If you donât do that, we may just edit the comment for you.
Using ân-wordâ would definitely not count as âmisleading or manipulatingâ. If you wanted to be absolutely precise I would recommend linking to the original source.
My initial comment seemed completely innocent to me. I didnât expect the backlash and donât want to clog this thread further with a discussion that isnât really on topic, so this will be my last reply here. (DM me if you want)
thx @RAB for the reply
To all the people who downvoted. My comment was asking for clarification. If you then downvote it for presumably the same reason you took offense to the Bostrom comment without explaining why this isnât very productive.
@moderators I edited my comment.
The effect that the rules will have wonât be that I(and I assume this is true for others as well) will act the way that you think is proper, instead I will just not engage at all. This isnât just true for this instance (which would be trivial), but in general.
Thank you for editing the comment and really thank you for the feedback.
I agree, we will need to be very careful about striking a proper balance here, but I think we can find something thatâs better than the status quo (which results in downvotes and off-topic discussions, and detracts from discussions on how to do the most good)
I agree that the current norms are probably not clear enough to cover this situation, we are thinking about adding more specific ones.
As a non-american, I also initially found the lack of use-mention distinction to be very counterintuitive. But itâs culturally very important for a very large fraction of forum readers, so I would also ask you to edit your initial comment. If you donât do that, we may just edit the comment for you.
Using ân-wordâ would definitely not count as âmisleading or manipulatingâ. If you wanted to be absolutely precise I would recommend linking to the original source.
My initial comment seemed completely innocent to me. I didnât expect the backlash and donât want to clog this thread further with a discussion that isnât really on topic, so this will be my last reply here. (DM me if you want)
thx @RAB for the reply
To all the people who downvoted. My comment was asking for clarification. If you then downvote it for presumably the same reason you took offense to the Bostrom comment without explaining why this isnât very productive.
@moderators I edited my comment.
The effect that the rules will have wonât be that I(and I assume this is true for others as well) will act the way that you think is proper, instead I will just not engage at all. This isnât just true for this instance (which would be trivial), but in general.
Thank you for editing the comment and really thank you for the feedback.
I agree, we will need to be very careful about striking a proper balance here, but I think we can find something thatâs better than the status quo (which results in downvotes and off-topic discussions, and detracts from discussions on how to do the most good)