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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by 0x8BADF00D on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:36PM (#18885682)
> That would be an argument for lurkers to make an effort, even if, like this comment, it's just a barely-formed idea.

The content is there, by lesser known figures and lurkers alike. It’s just hard to discover. You need to stumble upon it by accident, instead of by a deliberate process like consuming the top upvoted posts.

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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by gniv on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:27PM (#18886097)
That's a good point. It could be that since we don't know how to scale curation (and use upvotes as a proxy), we exacerbate the problem of lurkers not having their (few) comments discovered.

As a counter-example, I find the "editor's picks" comments on some New York Times articles to be high quality and quite diverse. But that model, of course, doesn't scale.

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