this is Habryka talking about how his moderating skills are so powerful it takes lesswrong three fucking years to block a poster who’s actively being a drain on the site
here’s his reaction to sneerclub (specifically me - thanks Oliver!) calling LessOnline “wordy racist fest”:
A culture of loose status-focused social connection. Fellow sneerers are not trying to build anything together. They are not relying on each other for trade, coordination or anything else. They don’t need to develop protocols of communication that produce functional outcomes, they just need to have fun sneering together.
He gets us! He really gets us!
I finally found which user we’re talking about and I am quietly delighted at that smarmy fucker being directed to the fourth-floor egress.
edit: here’s the long form mod last warning. You’ll see in that thread my next prediction for ejection via the fourth floor, whose profile shows he’s into crypto.
they finally got that asshole? took ’em long enough