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Hello, I am currently writing quite a long post but before writing the remaining 90% I would like to have a "pre-submission moderation discussion" as offered by the LessWrong moderation team in the post editing GUI. So I have sent a couple of messages to them requesting a discussion/help to make sure my post has a reasonable chance to pass the LessWrong moderation. The messaging widget says "Our usual reply time 🕒 under 3 hours" but it has been more than 30 hours and still no reply and so I am stuck. Could anybody kindly help/advise me on what I should do please?
iirc that used to be non-configurable, but I just took a second look at Intercom's settings and changed it to "in a day" (the actual average is less than 24 hours, but trying to communicate the true distribution is impractical).
I've now responded to you on Intercom.
I am not sure what you could do. I suspect that the moderation team is overwhelmed with novices doing things like trying to post sophisticated mechinterp-like slop, things filling the section "Rejected posts" at https://www.lesswrong.com/moderation (e.g. this rant by a Japanese user) and an amount of rather sloppy posts of which even the moderators were unsure on what they should do. I could offer you to send the draft to me or make me a co-author so that the mods would be more likely to accept the post once they read it (edit: unless the post is beyond redemption, like Hazard's post which I had to overview).
P.S. I also have no idea on how the feature of requesting feedback from the moderators actually works.
Thank you for your answer, very appreciated indeed.
Before starting to write my post I have indeed read the basics about what has very little chance to pass the LessWrong moderation (thank you for pointing these again to me) and I think my post does not fall into the same patterns as these examples. My post is AI safety related and basically explains one dialogue technique/pattern to derail a LLM into making a lot of "controversial statements". So this post contains a lot of user-LLM interactions with explaining notes. It also contains lot of "controversial statements" (for demonstration purpose).
Thank you for offering me to read my draft, etc... that would be helpful in terms of making a better guess about if my post has a reasonable chance to pass moderation but that would add some complexity to my workflow and would not really offer much guarantee the LessWrong moderation team would accept my post (or would it?!).
I really would like to have a proper discussion with the LessWrong moderation team, this is what I really need and really would like to have. Thank you StanislavKrym for replying to me as it actually helped me clarify what I need and how I want to handle that problem: I just need to talk to the moderation team about my post and so I will just wait for them to answer me. It is annoying, disappointing and frustrating that they state that usually reply under 3 hours but haven't done so for 30 hours and counting. But what can I do about that? I suspect not much so I will just wait (I mean I will do other things of course while waiting!).
Thank you again for your answer and your help, very appreciated indeed.
Hello again.
They have actually just finally replied to me so problem solved, I just needed to be patient and just wait indeed.
Hopefully if they see that they can't any more usually reply under 3 hours, they will amend that information so users are not wondering what is happening.