Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @12:24AM
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The truth is that if you're looking for informed discussion from people with knowledge and insight on a topic, then a forum with absolutely no rules generally doesn't fly. There are different characteristations of this, but "the evaporative cooling effect" is a good general description -- too much noise and the clue flees.
Comments sections of most online sites are tripe. It takes effort and curation to make them otherwise. Finding ways to offer voice without drowning in noise is difficult. HN is one of the exceptions, as are Metafilter, some subreddits, and a very few other places online, as Google's Lea Kissner points out (she's involved with Google's own privacy and abuse team):
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...
The more ironic as I was using that argument with a Wikipedia editor who'd run into issues of petty dictators on certain Wikpedia articles:
https://plus.google.com/+PeterStrempel/posts/Rbm6AusBgmt
Comments sections of most online sites are tripe. It takes effort and curation to make them otherwise. Finding ways to offer voice without drowning in noise is difficult. HN is one of the exceptions, as are Metafilter, some subreddits, and a very few other places online, as Google's Lea Kissner points out (she's involved with Google's own privacy and abuse team):
https://plus.google.com/+LeaKissner/posts/JUEgFFJQWWC