I disagree voted because I think that withholding of private info should be a strong norm and that it’s not the poster’s job to please the community with privileged info that could hurt them when they are already doing a service by posting. I also think it could possibly serve as an indicator of some sort (eg, if people searched the forum for comments like this perhaps it might point towards a trend of posters worrying about how much blowback they think they might get from funders/other EA orgs if actual criticism of them/backdoor convos were revealed—whether that’s a warranted worry or not). I also think that by leaking private convos that will hurt a person because now every time someone interacts with that person they will think that their convo might get leaked online and will not engages with that person. Seems mean to ask someone to do that for you just so you can have more data to judge them on—they are trying to communicate something real to you but obviously can’t. I don’t have any reason to doubt the poster unless they’ve lied before and have a strong trust norm unless there is a reason not to trust. But I double liked because most of the rest of your comment was good :-)
I disagree voted because I think that withholding of private info should be a strong norm and that it’s not the poster’s job to please the community with privileged info that could hurt them when they are already doing a service by posting. I also think it could possibly serve as an indicator of some sort (eg, if people searched the forum for comments like this perhaps it might point towards a trend of posters worrying about how much blowback they think they might get from funders/other EA orgs if actual criticism of them/backdoor convos were revealed—whether that’s a warranted worry or not). I also think that by leaking private convos that will hurt a person because now every time someone interacts with that person they will think that their convo might get leaked online and will not engages with that person. Seems mean to ask someone to do that for you just so you can have more data to judge them on—they are trying to communicate something real to you but obviously can’t. I don’t have any reason to doubt the poster unless they’ve lied before and have a strong trust norm unless there is a reason not to trust. But I double liked because most of the rest of your comment was good :-)