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Re:The Wrath of Goodreads by jauntywundrkind on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:18PM (#36925305)
30 years in & it feels like the internet hasn't taken a single step to moderating the moderators. The web has almost nothing here & that's kept us locked in this sad holding pattern.

I love the Web Annotation specification. Comment on anything on the web! Share those annotations! And it will let you select/target content in the page. But actually being able to annotate something like the discrete comments within the page, that feels missing.

Maybe good reads lets us view a specific comment by a specific author: there's a page for it. That we can annotate & mark up, in a way we can aggregate against that comment or that author. But if we're just browsing a list of reviews, there's a missing link in figuring out semantically what it is on the page we're trying to markup.

Re:The Wrath of Goodreads by jmeister on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:19AM (#36929366)
Community Notes?
Re:The Wrath of Goodreads by jauntywundrkind on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:24PM (#36936154)
I know very little about how the different voices there are moderated/synthesized I to what's shown. It's just an anonymous black box machine to me. But tes, it is a recent example of crowdharvesting some opinion!!