Thus, all criticism must be stated in the most faux-friendly, milquetoast way possible, imposing significant effort demands on the critic and allowing them to be disregarded if they ever slip up and actually straightforwardly say that a bad thing is bad.
I’m speaking for the moderation team right now. We enforce civility on the Forum and don’t view this property as opposed to criticism or disagreement.
That’s good to know, but I wonder how much change you personally can make. It’ll be significant, for sure, but I think a lot of this is cultural: a sort of EA-accelerated chunk of the class-coded aspects of the Hidden Curriculum.
I’m speaking for the moderation team right now. We enforce civility on the Forum and don’t view this property as opposed to criticism or disagreement.
That’s good to know, but I wonder how much change you personally can make. It’ll be significant, for sure, but I think a lot of this is cultural: a sort of EA-accelerated chunk of the class-coded aspects of the Hidden Curriculum.