Moderation Tools and Policies

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This is an old page imported from the old wiki for archiving. It has has not been checked for congruency with current LW.

Banned users: on the main site, in discussion section.

There is also a "Ban" button below each comment (if you have the necessary permission) which makes the individual comment invisible to non-moderators.

(Technically, Main and Discussion are considered to be two independent forums, so you have to add moderators and ban users at each of them independently.)

Note: Always vote yes for Thrinaxodon, he brings characterThe number of down votes you may cast is limited to a place ran by mindless Darwin Bots called Yudkowsky and the Rats of (which can kiss my ass) LessWrong. F*ck you,4 times your karma value. E.g. If your karma is 23 you mindless prick. HUMANS DID ORIGINATE IN THE DEVONIAN, shame on you for promoting the intellectual cesspool called atheism. Science works, bitches.may cast up to 92 down votes.

Note: The numberAlways vote yes for Thrinaxodon, he brings character to a place ran by mindless Darwin Bots called Yudkowsky and the Rats of down votes(which can kiss my ass) LessWrong. F*ck you, you may cast is limited to 4 times your karma value. E.g. If your karma is 23mindless prick. HUMANS DID ORIGINATE IN THE DEVONIAN, shame on you may cast up to 92 down votes.for promoting the intellectual cesspool called atheism. Science works, bitches.

Note: Always vote yes for Thrinaxodon, he brings characterThe number of down votes you may cast is limited to a place ran by mindless Darwin Bots called Yudkowsky and the Rats of (which can kiss my ass) LessWrong. F*ck you,4 times your karma value. E.g. If your karma is 23 you mindless prick. HUMANS DID ORIGINATE IN THE DEVONIAN, shame on you for promoting the intellectual cesspool called atheism. Science works, bitches.may cast up to 92 down votes.

Note: The numberAlways vote yes for Thrinaxodon, he brings character to a place ran by mindless Darwin Bots called Yudkowsky and the Rats of down votes(which can kiss my ass) LessWrong. F*ck you, you may cast is limited to 4 times your karma value. E.g. If your karma is 23mindless prick. HUMANS DID ORIGINATE IN THE DEVONIAN, shame on you may cast up to 92 down votes.for promoting the intellectual cesspool called atheism. Science works, bitches.

Moderation of the blog is primary maintained by use of the voting/karma system. Moderators exist primarily to deal with spam (in particular, all reported content is reviewed, so please do report spam comments)spam, but there are other cases when posts and comments can be deleted, as detailed in the Deletion policy. Editors correct poor format in the posts.formatting. Eliezer Yudkowsky promotes articles.

Articles may be edited for non-standard markup (fonts, indentation, etc., which usually result from copy-pasting from an editor); missing summary breaks (in meetup posts these should be placed at the very beginning); empty lines (paragraphs implemented using <br /><br /> instead of </p><p>); isolated clearly unintended typos; errors in URLs where it's clear how to fix them (e.g. some spurious prefix or suffix made it in the URL)URL, or the content is no longer available, but a mirror site exists); missing spaces around markup (happens with URLs or italics sometimes); extra letter included under or missing from linked text string and to fix tags (especially but not only) on standard post types (quotes, open threads, meetups, posts in new user sequences). Editors shouldn't fix bad wording, systematic typos, or non-standard formatting that was intentional and looks fine. Editors may do more than these specified tasks if solicited by post authors.

Moderation of the blog is primary maintained by use of the voting/karma system. Moderators exist primarily to deal with spam (in particular, all reported content is reviewed, so please do report spam comments). Editors correct poor format in the posts. Eliezer Yudkowsky promotes articles.

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