> https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1586956650455265281

"Hereʻs the answer everyone knows: there IS no principled reason for banning spam. We ban spam for purely outcome-based reasons:

It affects the quality of experience for users we care about, and users having a good time on the platform makes it successful."

And also this Chinese Room argument: "once again, I challenge you to think about it this way: could you make your content moderation decisions even if you didnʻt understand the language they were being spoken in?""

In other words, there are certain kinds of post which trigger escalating pathological behavior - more posts - which destroy the usability platform for bystanders by flooding it. He argues that it doesn't matter what these posts mean or whose responsibility is it for the escalation, just the simple physics of "if you don't remove these posts and stop more arriving, your forum will die".