I notice that some writers (e.g. Hauke in his recent post about the cost effectiveness climate change interventions) have something just above the comments section a note about their personal commenting guidelines. This seems like a potentially really useful feature. Not every user seems to have this though.
EDIT: I assume this relates to the feature on LessWrong described here where users can add moderation guidelines to their own posts so that they can treat LessWrong like a personal blog to some degree. This seems like a good way to encourage more people to post. Is there a similar feature on the EA Forum? If so, how does it work here?
Good noticing. One facet of the LessWrong feature is that as users pass a certain amount of karma they gain privileges. I believe that high karma users such as Eliezer (on LW) or Peter Hurford (here) can moderate their own posts, even on the frontpage. I think very low karma users may not be able to moderate posts that remain on their personal blog. Given the EA Forum’s differences in how we treat the personal blog / frontpage distinction, we may want to diverge from LW’s feature-set here. I haven’t touched it since I was initially setting up the Forum, and I’m not sure how I left it. I’m not sure all of the features are there. Certainly we’d want to write up a user’s guide for the feature. I appreciate the comment. When we were setting up the Forum it wasn’t top priority, but very plausibly the landscape has changed. Without making a public commitment (😛), I wouldn’t be surprised if that fix got prioritized – it does seem useful for encouraging people to post.
Hey JP, don’t worry I won’t hold you to anything :-) I know you guys have a lot on. I think the feature of setting your own moderation guidelines at a certain karma level is a good one. It encourages top posters and also encourages the whole community to take more responsibility for good quality conversations. If you did get the chance to figure out how this was currently working on the EA Forum (e.g. at what karma level to individuals get what moderation features) and perhaps enact something similar to the LessWrong version that would be cool. Let me know what you end up deciding to do.
I notice that some writers (e.g. Hauke in his recent post about the cost effectiveness climate change interventions) have something just above the comments section a note about their personal commenting guidelines. This seems like a potentially really useful feature. Not every user seems to have this though.
EDIT: I assume this relates to the feature on LessWrong described here where users can add moderation guidelines to their own posts so that they can treat LessWrong like a personal blog to some degree. This seems like a good way to encourage more people to post. Is there a similar feature on the EA Forum? If so, how does it work here?
Good noticing. One facet of the LessWrong feature is that as users pass a certain amount of karma they gain privileges. I believe that high karma users such as Eliezer (on LW) or Peter Hurford (here) can moderate their own posts, even on the frontpage. I think very low karma users may not be able to moderate posts that remain on their personal blog. Given the EA Forum’s differences in how we treat the personal blog / frontpage distinction, we may want to diverge from LW’s feature-set here. I haven’t touched it since I was initially setting up the Forum, and I’m not sure how I left it. I’m not sure all of the features are there. Certainly we’d want to write up a user’s guide for the feature. I appreciate the comment. When we were setting up the Forum it wasn’t top priority, but very plausibly the landscape has changed. Without making a public commitment (😛), I wouldn’t be surprised if that fix got prioritized – it does seem useful for encouraging people to post.
Hey JP, don’t worry I won’t hold you to anything :-) I know you guys have a lot on. I think the feature of setting your own moderation guidelines at a certain karma level is a good one. It encourages top posters and also encourages the whole community to take more responsibility for good quality conversations. If you did get the chance to figure out how this was currently working on the EA Forum (e.g. at what karma level to individuals get what moderation features) and perhaps enact something similar to the LessWrong version that would be cool. Let me know what you end up deciding to do.
I forgot to say this when I deployed it, but own-post moderation is now available. See this part of the LessWrong FAQ for how it works:
https://www.lesswrong.com/faq#What_moderation_actions_can_I_take_on_my_own_posts_
That’s great! Thanks for sorting that so quickly and for letting me know.