We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)

Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by PeterisP on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:21PM (#34087175)

Or the entire opposite direction, ensure that it's not possible to get paid for shitty content. Kill the web ads market by legal restrictions to tracking and targeting ads, facilitate ad blockers everywhere.

In this discussion, the people making the good content don't do it for the money, but the people creating spam do. Kill the money, and the commercial SEO crap goes away, and only the enthusiast content stays - as it was in the 'good old days' when simply getting clicks on your site could not get you any money.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by pxue on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:28PM (#34087243)

ads market will always be a cat/mouse game, a wild goose chase. you'll never be able to kill it fully.

> the people making the good content don't do it for the money

citation needed. there're two driving forces:

- money

- clout

they're interchangeable. if you have one the other becomes much easier to obtain. if the writer don't do it directly for the money, they're most definitely doing it for the clout.

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