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0 pointsintended8y ago0 comments

Oh its worse -

After you make your peace with that, theres an entire world of rules and theories on moderation, all of it useful and important to get the job done.

The cheat code to cut through that mess is -

"I'm coming to agree that theres no substitute for good editorial control"

Trust me on this, the proof is to painful to reproduced regularly.

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dredmorbius8y ago· 2 in thread

Also agreed.

(You're going to have to try harder for an argument ;-)

haha not arguing, just seeing how deep this rabbit hole goes.

Like teachers, now editors are another social good that we need to manage information dissemination optimized for civilization's good.

Always has been, or at least so long as mass media have existed.

I've been exploring this topic, as a particular focus over the past year, though it's been an interest for some years.

If you look back to the Catholic inquisition (and its precursors), Gutenberg, Martin Luther (500th anniversary coming up at the end of October), J.S. Mill (I've run across some excellent discussion by Hans Jensen: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6x7u6a/on_the_... and http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760110081599 (available via Sci-Hub)).

It's sobering.

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