Re:The Trance of Dysfunction: Why Trolls Have Come to Domina...
by Analemma_ on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:23AM
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That's an pretry glass-half-full perspective. I would counter with this:
Wikipedia = stable, but mostly because a cabal of senior editors is firmly in charge. For all practical purposes, "anyone" can't edit Wikipedia anymore; try it, your edits will be reverted by somebody citing WP:WTFBBQ. It keeps trolling down, but at the cost of enforcing the party line.
Reddit = when it isn't trolls and miscreants, it's the same unfunny jokes upvoted ad nauseum
HN = good, but mostly because we're a self-selecting subset of the general population and there are legitimate grounds for banning any "off-topic" speech. This approach doesn't scale to the wider world.
Wikipedia = stable, but mostly because a cabal of senior editors is firmly in charge. For all practical purposes, "anyone" can't edit Wikipedia anymore; try it, your edits will be reverted by somebody citing WP:WTFBBQ. It keeps trolling down, but at the cost of enforcing the party line.
Reddit = when it isn't trolls and miscreants, it's the same unfunny jokes upvoted ad nauseum
HN = good, but mostly because we're a self-selecting subset of the general population and there are legitimate grounds for banning any "off-topic" speech. This approach doesn't scale to the wider world.