Something else I haven’t mentioned about preventing the Nazi death spiral and why “just debate the Nazis” is not an adequate way to prevent the Nazi death spiral:
If they don’t get banned for posting Nazi stuff, the Nazis can become part of the community by posting other, more normal EA-type stuff. People can read and upvote and comment on the normal stuff without knowing about the posters’ Nazi affiliations or beliefs. Then, you have users with a lot of karma who are Nazis, and people will look around at the EA community and say, “Hmm, there sure are a lot of Nazis here!” and then leave.
I don’t think effective altruism is a covert racist eugenics cult like some critics seem to claim, but there are people out there who would love to turn effective altruism into a racist eugenics cult and I don’t think we should hand them our movement on a silver platter.
Something else I haven’t mentioned about preventing the Nazi death spiral and why “just debate the Nazis” is not an adequate way to prevent the Nazi death spiral:
If they don’t get banned for posting Nazi stuff, the Nazis can become part of the community by posting other, more normal EA-type stuff. People can read and upvote and comment on the normal stuff without knowing about the posters’ Nazi affiliations or beliefs. Then, you have users with a lot of karma who are Nazis, and people will look around at the EA community and say, “Hmm, there sure are a lot of Nazis here!” and then leave.
I don’t think effective altruism is a covert racist eugenics cult like some critics seem to claim, but there are people out there who would love to turn effective altruism into a racist eugenics cult and I don’t think we should hand them our movement on a silver platter.
Ban the Nazis.