the one time I posted a comment about a prominent AI ethics person that was relatively harsh (I think with some justification), it got deleted by the mods on the grounds that they didn’t want to “undermine the potential for further engagement”
Do you have a link to that interaction? I can’t think of any case where mods deleted comments that didn’t contain personal information[1], but it might have happened before I started reading the forum.
I feel like spreading what I said originally is basically an attempt to reverse the original moderation decision, and I don’t want to be adversarial. Nor do I want to name the person who removed it and put them on the spot (especially as I don’t think it was an outrageous decision or anything, though I don’t really regret what I said either.)
Do you have a link to that interaction? I can’t think of any case where mods deleted comments that didn’t contain personal information[1], but it might have happened before I started reading the forum.
edit: except when a user asks to delete their comments, but I think that should count as if the user was deleting the comments themselves
I feel like spreading what I said originally is basically an attempt to reverse the original moderation decision, and I don’t want to be adversarial. Nor do I want to name the person who removed it and put them on the spot (especially as I don’t think it was an outrageous decision or anything, though I don’t really regret what I said either.)
I think it’s important for readers of this forum to know that mods don’t delete comments for these reasons.
Is there any information you could share about this (e.g. the thread you had commented on, or at least the year when it happened?)