# Guidelines Clarifications **URL:** \ **Category:** Community\ **Created:** [September 12, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/guidelines-clarifications/309 "2021-09-12T18:56:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/elliot/32/14_2.png) [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/guidelines-clarifications/309/1 "2021-09-12T18:56:38Z")
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**Author:** ![Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/elliot/32/14_2.png) [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/guidelines-clarifications/309/2 "2021-09-12T18:56:58Z")
> [@(Classical) Liberalism \[CF Article\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/classical-liberalism-cf-article/158/24): > > Criticizing or commenting on the published work of authors or content creators is partially asymmetric. They are voluntarily putting themselves out there in a way people leaving a comment are not. This is difficult to capture in formal rules, but a rough idea is that creators should not escalate – which roughly means don’t respond with harsher criticism than a commenter used. (It’s fine if you ask first and they want something. Asking when unsure is a method others can use too. You can also ofte… > [@(Classical) Liberalism \[CF Article\]](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/classical-liberalism-cf-article/158/25): > > Also, if saying something is within normal social rules and it’s not mean then it’s generally fine. In other words, as usual, convention + no major problem = OK. This relates to the attitude of starting with convention and making modifications to fix (significant) problems, which is pretty different than trying to make up an ideal system from scratch.