I don’t think that the top-level comment is particularly responsive to the post, except insofar as it might have taken the title as a call to action (and then ignored the rest of the post). It’s also quite vague. But I agree that a ban seems like an unusually harsh response, absent additional context which supports the “provocation” interpretation.
Hi, just to clear some things up: the warning and ban are for this comment by 3f6f6014. [1]
We’ve just enabled a system that we’re testing to avoid showing spam or severely norm-breaking comments by users who’ve just joined, by which comments posted by new users don’t show up for other users until they’ve been checked by a Forum mod or facilitator.
The comment I issued a warning for is extremely downvoted and disagree-voted, so I assumed that people were seeing it, although it had the note from the new system “[This comment will not be visible to other users until the moderation team checks it for spam or norm violations.]”. I think that was wrong, and this has caused some confusion. We’ll try to improve the system here.
Thanks for clarifying! Yeah I thought that the post was banned, based on your comment and the flag at the top of the post when I followed the forum norms link.
I don’t think that the top-level comment is particularly responsive to the post, except insofar as it might have taken the title as a call to action (and then ignored the rest of the post). It’s also quite vague. But I agree that a ban seems like an unusually harsh response, absent additional context which supports the “provocation” interpretation.
My initial reaction to the mod comment was confusion, as it is not threaded beneath wachichornia’s comment for me:
Hi, just to clear some things up: the warning and ban are for this comment by 3f6f6014. [1]
We’ve just enabled a system that we’re testing to avoid showing spam or severely norm-breaking comments by users who’ve just joined, by which comments posted by new users don’t show up for other users until they’ve been checked by a Forum mod or facilitator.
The comment I issued a warning for is extremely downvoted and disagree-voted, so I assumed that people were seeing it, although it had the note from the new system “[This comment will not be visible to other users until the moderation team checks it for spam or norm violations.]”. I think that was wrong, and this has caused some confusion. We’ll try to improve the system here.
If you can’t see the comment, still, its entire content is “Genetic determinism is true.”
Thanks for clarifying! Yeah I thought that the post was banned, based on your comment and the flag at the top of the post when I followed the forum norms link.