Agreed with importance of ensuring fairness between people with different opinions, though I disagree with this: “People have clearly invested significant time and attention into their posts on this and similar matters with the expectation that their post will receive the standard amount of visibility. Significantly reducing the amount of engagement they will likely receive after they have made that investment seems unfair”. If this becomes a standing policy, then people would have been forewarned in advance.
I’d agree with that view if the trigger criteria were sufficiently definite and published in advance (which would have other downsides), or if there were sufficient past practice for people to reasonably understand how the trigger would be applied in new circumstances.
“Mods may decide to cut visibility on high-volume current events” isn’t enough forewarning for me.
Agreed with importance of ensuring fairness between people with different opinions, though I disagree with this: “People have clearly invested significant time and attention into their posts on this and similar matters with the expectation that their post will receive the standard amount of visibility. Significantly reducing the amount of engagement they will likely receive after they have made that investment seems unfair”. If this becomes a standing policy, then people would have been forewarned in advance.
I’d agree with that view if the trigger criteria were sufficiently definite and published in advance (which would have other downsides), or if there were sufficient past practice for people to reasonably understand how the trigger would be applied in new circumstances.
“Mods may decide to cut visibility on high-volume current events” isn’t enough forewarning for me.