I think it would be a very bad decision to remove information about a possible conflict of interest in EA orgs handling large sums of money.
I’m inclined to think the encryption is also bad, but I’m not as sure of that. It seems to matter if the conflict of interest actually exists or not.
Edit: your norm as stated today does seem good to me:
Please do not share unverified rumors without doing some work to check them, first. You can run things by the moderation team if you’re unsure whether you should check them.
I agree that we should strive not to out people. But it’s problematic to use this obligation to let people avoid being known for ignoring their conflicts of interest.
I think it would be a very bad decision to remove information about a possible conflict of interest in EA orgs handling large sums of money.
I’m inclined to think the encryption is also bad, but I’m not as sure of that. It seems to matter if the conflict of interest actually exists or not.
Edit: your norm as stated today does seem good to me:
I’m curious why you think the encryption is bad? The information is still effectively public to anyone reading the post, the encryption purely makes it so search engines/searching the forum for “XNAME + Poly ” doesn’t return any results. Habryka’s comment explains why this info should be regarded as somewhat sensitive.
I agree that we should strive not to out people. But it’s problematic to use this obligation to let people avoid being known for ignoring their conflicts of interest.
As I said though, I’m not sure.