I agree that the kindness guidelines are largely related to community management. I also think they apply more weakly to public figures than to other people who arenāt active on the Forum. When someone who has a Netflix special and influence over millions of listeners is making ostensibly bad/ādeceptive arguments, the stakes are higher than usual, and Iām more likely to think that criticism is valuable enough that even āunkindā responses are net-valuable.
That said, all of this is contextual; if people began to violate the norm more often, moderation would crack down more to arrest the slide. I havenāt seen this happening.
I agree that the kindness guidelines are largely related to community management. I also think they apply more weakly to public figures than to other people who arenāt active on the Forum. When someone who has a Netflix special and influence over millions of listeners is making ostensibly bad/ādeceptive arguments, the stakes are higher than usual, and Iām more likely to think that criticism is valuable enough that even āunkindā responses are net-valuable.
That said, all of this is contextual; if people began to violate the norm more often, moderation would crack down more to arrest the slide. I havenāt seen this happening.