Jeff Kaufman 🔸 comments on On what basis did Founder’s Pledge disperse $1.6 mil. to Qvist Consulting from its Climate Change Fund?

[Jeff Kaufman 🔸]

I do think this is a hard balance, and as someone whose writing motivation is far stronger with the reward of immediate publication, it’s one I’ve struggled with and probably one I’ve gotten this wrong in both directions. A norm of sharing a draft ahead of time and giving them, say, a week to prepare a response if they want, though, seems pretty good?

[EDIT: expanded this into a post]

[Jason]

I’m starting to think posts should get a pinned mod comment if the poster doesn’t assert that the person/​organization had a specified amount of advance notice. That could be a tricky norm to define, as there can be valid reasons not to provide advance notice (e.g., breaking news or a situation where delay could risk clearly identifiable harm), and it’s not trivial to define with precision what type of posts warrant an advance-notice norm. I’m not envisioning a hostile pinned comment, but I am wondering if there should be an “official” statement that says something along the lines of: “we don’t delete criticisms that were not shared with the person/​organization in advance, but—at least absent special circumstances—no one should expect a prompt response where the poster chose not to share the post in advance.”

Edit: typo