Official LW uncensored thread (on Reddit)

I really like this solution, and appreciate you listening to the community and coming up with this :)

...I would frankly advise all LW regulars not to read this.

One argument in favor of reading the thread even if you think EY is a perfect moderator: if users' models of EY's moderating are bad, they may post things in the thread that wouldn't actually be censored, but the users' model predict would be censored (e.g. harsh but well-thought-out criticism of views prevalent on LW?)

So maybe if you read something that seems valuable and insightful in the thread (good enough that you would have posted it yourself if you had thought of it), you could repost it to LW... in the worst case, you'll just find yourself censored.

Anyway, I added a slightly obscure link to this page in the LW FAQ.

Can your or someone give a quick summary of what has been deleted?

I haven't been paying attention to private_messaging, and haven't noticed any crap from that direction, so maybe you're doing a good job with that one. What kinds of trollish things were deleted?

I do notice peterdjones' obnoxiously prolific philosophical confusion. Is that grounds for deletion, or was he doing worse things?

I saw a thread claiming to have solved decision theory in a way that was very likely wrong, but instead of getting downvoted, it simply disappeared. Was that you, or the poster? If you, why?

Is there other stuff?

Mostly I'd like to know if it's just crap and trolling, or if there are topics/ideas that you would rather were not mentioned. Also is this just in the interests of the LW community, or something more grey. (I'm fine with grey, if you have a good reason.)

I'd much prefer loud public executions to quiet censorship. On the *chans, for most crap, they leave the shitty posts up and put a big message that the user was banned. This is quite a bit funner and less scary. EDIT: someone pointed out that this sort of thing associates more positive feelings with the moderators, because people who agree actually get to see the mods doing things they agree with. /EDIT

like this, except actually interpreted:

Of course this is just my humble opinion, glorious leader.

Observation from reading the thread: Forums without a 'downvote' button are abhorrent. Not being able to at least register disgust at stupid comments via a trivial lowering of that comment's rating makes the experience (of being exposed to stupid) almost painful. (Not being able upvote gwern is nearly as bad!)

ie. Primitive though it may be lesswrong's karma system is awesome.

EDIT: Ahh, from the look of it perhaps my new account is just not permitted to vote yet. Since lesswrong has a similar codebase this makes me wonder about potential upgrades...

Why not just have a hard-to-find switch that lets you turn off censoring? Maybe you have to have over 500 karma, or you have to renew your turn off every week or somesuch.

This seems to me o be a less clunky solution than publicly advertising an uncensored thread at a different location.

in a location where comments aren't going to show up unsolicited in anyone's feed (which is why we're not doing this locally on LW)

Wait... If that was the issue, why wouldn't rot-13 suffice?