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“What’s with all the bans recently?” by Gerald Monroe


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Summary: the moderators appear to be soft banning users with 'rate-limits' without feedback. A careful review of each banned user reveals it's common to be banned despite earnestly attempting to contribute to the site. Some of the most intelligent banned users have mainstream instead of EA views on AI.

Note how the punishment lengths are all the same, I think it was a mass ban-wave of 3 week bans:

Gears to ascension was here but is no longer, guess she convinced them it was a mistake.

Have I made any like really dumb or bad comments recently:

https://www.greaterwrong.com/users/gerald-monroe?show=comments

Well I skimmed through it. I don't see anything. Got a healthy margin now on upvotes, thanks April 1.

Over a month ago, I did comment this stinker. Here is what seems to the same take by a very high reputation user here, @Matthew Barnett , on X: https://twitter.com/MatthewJBar/status/1775026007508230199

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April 4th, 2024

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GSSHcAoSChaKxjNDZ/what-s-with-all-the-bans-recently

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