The Internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections Comments sections are also extremely REVEALING... It seems we are getting a theory of wh

The Internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections Comments sections are also extremely REVEALING... It seems we are getting a theory of why public opinion is so moderate -- it's not just one opinion. It's half of people expressing one view, the other half expressing another view. The version on Wikipedia is effectively the average between the two. The history sections of wikipedia document this process in action. A lot of the things I look at are pretty dead but I am often impressed when a crappy wikipedia page and a few months later the page has really excellent discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_triple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_triple and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem