Writing only my personal perspective on the moderation team’s approach, I haven’t checked this with other moderators or advisors
my claim isn’t that moderators should avoid responding to posts that criticise prominent figures in EA. But my claim is that moderators should be cautious about acting in ways that discourage critique.
My view is that all moderators agree with this! There are just many reasonable places to draw this line, though, and both different users and different moderators have different preferences and perspectives on what the bar should be and what counts as “prominent figures in EA”.
In the past, we have received feedback from some users that we should have intervened in the opposite direction in other threads about prominent figures.
Writing only my personal perspective on the moderation team’s approach, I haven’t checked this with other moderators or advisors
My view is that all moderators agree with this! There are just many reasonable places to draw this line, though, and both different users and different moderators have different preferences and perspectives on what the bar should be and what counts as “prominent figures in EA”.
In the past, we have received feedback from some users that we should have intervened in the opposite direction in other threads about prominent figures.