Sidechannel note: Said wishes it to be known that he neither bans people from DSL nor customarily has the right to, the task being delegated to moderators rather than the sysop. ( https://share.obormot.net/textfiles/MINHjLX7 )
I'm very good friends with someone who is persistently critical and it has imo largely improved my mental health, fwiw, by forcing me to construct a functioning and well-maintained ego which I didn't really have before.
1I think in my whole life I have once seen a person come back because another person left, and they didn't stay long anyway. Broadly speaking I don't think this ever works.
1I think this only works if your standards for posts are in sync with those of the outside world. Otherwise, you're operating under incompatible status models and cannot sustain your community standards against outside pressure; you will always be outcompeted by the outside world (who can pretty much always offer more status than you can simply by volume) unless you can maintain the worth of your respect, and you cannot do that by copying outside appraisal.
I think you failed to establish that the long, well-written and highly-upvoted critiques lived in the larger LW archipelago, so there's a hole in your existence proof. On that basis, I would surmise that on priors Said assumed you were referring to comments or on-site posts.
Sounds like you should create PokemonBench.
I don't understand it but it does make me feel happy.
Haven't heard back yet...
edit: Heard back!
Okay, I'll do that, but why do I have to send an email...?
Like, why isn't the how-to like just in a comment? Alternately, why can't I select Lightcone as an option on Effektiv-Spenden?
Unless there's some legal reason, this seems like a weird unforced own-goal.
I think he just objected to the phrasing. I do think "set up a system where people can be banned by others whom Said does not instruct on who to ban" is a stretch for "Said bans people from DSL."
I have generally found Said to mean the things he says quite literally and to expect others to do so as well. It's painful to read a conversation where one person keeps assigning subtext to another who quite clearly never intended to put it there.