How Reddit Sparked a Dialogue Between Scientists and the General Public

Re:How Reddit Sparked a Dialogue Between Scientists and the ... by Tobu on Friday January 09, 2015 @05:06AM (#8861534)

Sorry, but any self-moderated forum is going to have content you don't like and lack content you like. That subreddit has the community's self-moderation, which scales, and moderators who don't. The moderators' aren't going to spend their day making judgment calls, they write clear rules[0] and let things take their course. “Must be peer-reviewed research” is pretty clear cut and the signal to noise is better than without it. Who cares if it's too strict; you have other subreddits.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/wiki/rules#wiki_submission_...

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Re:How Reddit Sparked a Dialogue Between Scientists and the ... by stolio on Friday January 09, 2015 @11:53AM (#8863020)

You missed the point of my comment. I'm saying that much of the "science" is so soft that the process is still based on judgement calls. Not only do I disagree with some of those judgment calls, but I prefer transparent value judgements to hidden value judgements.

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