While I agree it would have been significantly better to send this to the org ahead of time, I think on the margin I really wish we had more random spot-checks and discussions of org decisions, and still prefer seeing a post that puts an accidentally heavy burden on the org than not seeing one at all.
I do think this is a hard balance, and as someone whose writing motivation is far stronger with the reward of immediate publication, itâs one Iâve struggled with and probably one Iâve 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?
Iâm starting to think posts should get a pinned mod comment if the poster doesnât assert that the person/âorganization 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 itâs not trivial to define with precision what type of posts warrant an advance-notice norm. Iâm not envisioning a hostile pinned comment, but I am wondering if there should be an âofficialâ statement that says something along the lines of: âwe donât delete criticisms that were not shared with the person/âorganization in advance, butâat least absent special circumstancesâno one should expect a prompt response where the poster chose not to share the post in advance.â
While I agree it would have been significantly better to send this to the org ahead of time, I think on the margin I really wish we had more random spot-checks and discussions of org decisions, and still prefer seeing a post that puts an accidentally heavy burden on the org than not seeing one at all.
I do think this is a hard balance, and as someone whose writing motivation is far stronger with the reward of immediate publication, itâs one Iâve struggled with and probably one Iâve 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]
Iâm starting to think posts should get a pinned mod comment if the poster doesnât assert that the person/âorganization 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 itâs not trivial to define with precision what type of posts warrant an advance-notice norm. Iâm not envisioning a hostile pinned comment, but I am wondering if there should be an âofficialâ statement that says something along the lines of: âwe donât delete criticisms that were not shared with the person/âorganization in advance, butâat least absent special circumstancesâno one should expect a prompt response where the poster chose not to share the post in advance.â
Edit: typo