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Essentially any issue that relates to politics or geopolitics tends to have a strong left wing bias, as if it is written from the perspective of the left wing against the right wing.
Then again, reality has a well-known liberal bias. ;-)
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Wikipedia is in the business of paying secret writers for content to sway opinions, politically. Of course they have jumped the shark, they’re basically working for agencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
If your core business product is content contributed by users... I'm turning to the opinion that you need a C-level ombudsman- / dean of contributors-type role. Whose sole job it is to (1) figure out what contributors are thinking and want & (2) advocate for them inside the company. Every contributor-driven platform has eventually jumped the shark, and all in exactly the same way. Management begins to take contributi…
> Every contributor-driven platform has eventually jumped the shark, and all in exactly the same way. Reddit seems to be the exception to the rule. I and millions of others still spend a ton of time there. People have loudly griped about ads and API pricing, meanwhile I'm still finding new interesting subreddits. They seem to have monetized without destroying the UX. I hope the forthcoming IPO doesn't ruin this comme…
It is a sad thing to me to see such a great resource just end up trash.
Thanks to ublacklist for hiding the damned thing.
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Given you now live in the EU you could try exercising your right to account deletion.
How long does one need to be in the EU to have/exercise that right? E.g., could an American issue a deletion order during a layover in a European airport?
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As one example, I wrote this comment a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974614 But to expand a bit, for example I'm annoyed at many of the entries calling their subject "conspiracy theory/ theorist". Not that conspiracy theories and their believers don't exist, but at this point it has become a highly pejorative and judgemental term to frame ideas and narratives that need to be stigmatized rather…
So climate change, is it surprising the thread went bonkers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_J._Crockford What ever I answer in this case the easiest reaction will be; for you will be to judge me and lump me together with what you cal activists, and for those activists it will me easiest to put me in the same conspiracy theorist group as you. This is not a problem with Wikipedia, this is a human problem. While I…
Wikipedia could be an excellent attack vector for sorting out human's heads at scale.
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Why aren't science journals the same? Why do I still have to pay some middle man?
My high level speculation is curation. There actually is (or should be?) some sort of peer review system by people for that journal. That labor is valuable. Also, simple grandfathering. I imagine once upon a time Science journals was a literal term. Easier to keep the same hook if your users were used to it in another medium.
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I have no experience running a site centered on user generated content, but it seems to me that the biggest problem/threat to any of them is the people who start showing up once it gains traction and becomes more popular. Early users are a different band of the population, on every successful platform from StackOverflow to Uber they create a particular culture which is impossible to maintain as the general public arr…
A StackOverflow question I asked 13 years ago (and which someone else answered 13 years ago!) was deleted just last month for being off-topic. All the mods’ accounts were years younger than both the question and answer. Even weirder, the mod who initiated the deletion first tried to answer the question. He only voted to delete it after I commented that the question already had had an accepted answer for 13 years.
Fortunately it's so terrible I was easily dissuaded from ever answering anything.
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It is well-known that people radicalize when they are excluded from political process. Wikipedia is notorious for excluding ordinary contributors from the process. Anybody can revert your change and that takes precedence over what you did, and there is no obvious appeal process for you, but de facto there is for the well-connected long-time editors. They can always gather some cavalry and run you over. So they should…
StackOverflow also raises the bar for becoming a contributor. You can't start commenting until you have some upvotes on answers or questions for instance. I think these things turn out to be a bit important.