Indeed, maybe I should made the point more harshly. To be clear, that comment is not about something people might do, it’s about what’s already present in the top post, which I see as breaking the Reddit rules.
I used soft language because I was worried about EA discussions breaking into arguments whenever someone suggests a good thing to do, and was worried that I might have erred too much in the other direction in other contexts. I still don’t feel I have a good intuition on how confrontational I should be.
I think it was an understandable first thought for someone who didn’t know those rules, and Dony shouldn’t be castigated for not knowing about them in a useful post about an important topic. But I think we should be definite about not violating the rules (e.g. by editing the post) now that everyone involved knows about them, while pursuing Dony’s other good ideas.
Indeed, maybe I should made the point more harshly. To be clear, that comment is not about something people might do, it’s about what’s already present in the top post, which I see as breaking the Reddit rules.
I used soft language because I was worried about EA discussions breaking into arguments whenever someone suggests a good thing to do, and was worried that I might have erred too much in the other direction in other contexts. I still don’t feel I have a good intuition on how confrontational I should be.
I think it was an understandable first thought for someone who didn’t know those rules, and Dony shouldn’t be castigated for not knowing about them in a useful post about an important topic. But I think we should be definite about not violating the rules (e.g. by editing the post) now that everyone involved knows about them, while pursuing Dony’s other good ideas.