Throw stones at the idea. Leave Chris out of the firing line.
Hard criticism improves ideas. Personal attacks merely generate noise and bruises. This policy protects criticism—not the proposal from criticism.
The proposal is meant to be reviewed at passage level.
Readers should be able to identify the exact sentence, figure, assumption or safeguard they are challenging. General reactions remain welcome, but specific criticism is far more useful to revision and public accountability.
The interface supports passage targeting, categories, sources, local voting, reporting and export. Shared public publishing, verified identities, uploads and digest email require the production backend and are not falsely represented as live.
Open the proposal reviewWhat is welcome
- Challenges to facts, citations and source interpretation
- Alternative financial assumptions and counterfactuals
- Implementation, privacy, equity, cultural and legal risks
- Evidence that a mechanism may fail or cause harm
- Better alternatives or narrower designs
- Clear support that explains why a feature is valuable
What is not useful public review
- Attacks on Christopher Laidlaw’s character, intelligence, appearance, motives, family or personal life
- Threats, harassment, discriminatory abuse or doxxing
- Knowingly false claims or fabricated endorsements
- Spam, commercial promotion or repeated disruption
- Private information about a young person or other individual
Christopher Laidlaw is not the policy. If the proposal is weak, show where it is weak.
Moderation standard
Submissions may be removed or withheld when they contain abuse, private information, unlawful material, spam or content unrelated to evaluating the proposal. Disagreement, blunt language and hostile conclusions are not removed merely because they are uncomfortable.
How to make criticism useful
- Identify the claim, passage or mechanism.
- Explain why it is weak, wrong or harmful.
- Provide evidence or reasoning where possible.
- State whether the implication is clarification, redesign, narrower targeting, comparison with an alternative, delay or stopping.
- Declare material conflicts of interest.