and plausibly should have been more stringent and/or public
Just wanted to comment on the public aspect. I think in general the old maxim remains true: “praise in public, criticise in private”. I think it’s generally better when people receive feedback about norm violations privately. I also think it’s likely that this does happen today, and that does mean that it’s hard to know how much norm violation policing is going on, because much of it may be private.
I think there’s a place for private criticism, but it needs to be accompanied by public removal of the offending behavior, and/or apologies. Otherwise, other people don’t see that the norms are being reinforced. (And as originally, this applies much more to the more senior / well known EAs.)
Just wanted to comment on the public aspect. I think in general the old maxim remains true: “praise in public, criticise in private”. I think it’s generally better when people receive feedback about norm violations privately. I also think it’s likely that this does happen today, and that does mean that it’s hard to know how much norm violation policing is going on, because much of it may be private.
I think there’s a place for private criticism, but it needs to be accompanied by public removal of the offending behavior, and/or apologies. Otherwise, other people don’t see that the norms are being reinforced. (And as originally, this applies much more to the more senior / well known EAs.)