Suggest A Comments Policy
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Summary
A short admin/meta post opening the question of a comments policy to readers, with a list of desired properties. Its one real nugget is the 'fences' passage: he's philosophically justified in moderating because his fence traps KKK/Hitler outside while keeping kind, charitable interlocutors in, whereas an ideologue's fence is just 'HATE AND KILL THE INHUMAN DEMONS' on both sides -- an early articulation of his niceness/moderation philosophy.
Why this score
Quality 51 · Solid. Primarily an admin request-for-input, lifted just above a bare stub by the 'fences' articulation. Low-Solid.
Claude’s paradigm shift 28 · Slight. Slight. The fences point is a nice but brief articulation; minimal novelty.
Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. An admin request-for-input on a comments policy, lifted just above a stub by the early 'fences' articulation of his moderation philosophy; community admin with no material-world reach → RWI 1.