All: this is an interesting submission—it contains some of the most interesting writing about moderation that I've seen in a long time*. If you're going to comment, please make sure you've read and understand his argument and are engaging with it.
If you dislike long-form Twitter, here you go: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1586955288061452289.html - and please don't comment about that here. I know it can be annoying, but so is having the same offtopic complaints upvoted to the top of every such thread. This is why we added the site guideline: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats" (and yes, this comment is also doing this. Sorry.)
Similarly, please resist being baited by the sales interludes in the OP. They're also offtopic and, yes, annoying, but this is why we added the site guideline "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article to complain about—find something interesting to respond to instead."
If you dislike long-form Twitter, here you go: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1586955288061452289.html - and please don't comment about that here. I know it can be annoying, but so is having the same offtopic complaints upvoted to the top of every such thread. This is why we added the site guideline: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats" (and yes, this comment is also doing this. Sorry.)
Similarly, please resist being baited by the sales interludes in the OP. They're also offtopic and, yes, annoying, but this is why we added the site guideline "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article to complain about—find something interesting to respond to instead."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
* even more so than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446064, which was also above the median for this topic.