I don’t think people dropped the ball here really, people were struggling honestly to take accusations of bad behaviour seriously without getting into witch hunt dynamics.
Good point, I guess my lasting impression wasn’t entirely fair to how things played out. In any case, the most important part of my message is that I hope he doesn’t feels discouraged from actively participating in EA.
My memory is a large number of people to the NL controversy seriously, and the original threads on it were long and full of hostile comments to NL, and only after someone posted a long piece in defence of NL did some sympathy shift back to them. But even then there are like 90-something to 30-something agree votes and 200 karma on Yarrow’s comment saying NL still seem bad: https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​H4DYehKLxZ5NpQdBC/​​nonlinear-s-evidence-debunking-false-and-misleading-claims?commentId=7YxPKCW3nCwWn2swb
I don’t think people dropped the ball here really, people were struggling honestly to take accusations of bad behaviour seriously without getting into witch hunt dynamics.
Good point, I guess my lasting impression wasn’t entirely fair to how things played out. In any case, the most important part of my message is that I hope he doesn’t feels discouraged from actively participating in EA.