Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site

Post by ggm » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 7:26 AM UTC

ketralnis wrote: post #27

diogenescynic wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Not an archeologist. The best way to get good input is to post bad input and wait to be corrected! This is so true. If you ask for help, people will ignore you. But... if you post the wrong answer--people will fall over themselves to correct you. It's like a hack for human behavior.

And actively harmful in implementation. It spreads bad information, confidently posted for others to trust and duplicate. Bad information labelled with an appropriate confidence rating can be useful as a starting point to others. ("I'm not sure but this looks sort of like a rail spike nail, maybe start there?") But labelled as good, to others that can't label it themselves, it just degrades the average value of the o…