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A lot of commenters here are mentioning that better education could help solve this problem. I agree. What if there were a new type of "teacher" who replaced o
by apeace 9y ago
A lot of commenters here are mentioning that better education could help solve this problem. I agree.
What if there were a new type of "teacher" who replaced or augmented regular mods on sites like Reddit?
Universities strive to hire professors who will teach students to be open-minded, consider the sources of information, and just think better in general. The prestige of each university is largely based on this factor. We tend to measure this by looking at the research accomplishments of the professors, or by looking at how many great thinkers/leaders come out of those universities.
What if sites like Reddit did the same thing, and tried to build their prestige based on excellent moderation? Could they be measured by how many great ideas/movements come out of the platform?
How do universities prevent the "echo chamber" effect where a few mods or a few users can take the whole conversation in one direction?
- VLM 9y ago"How do universities prevent the "echo chamber" effect where a few mods or a few users can take the whole conversation in one direction?" They turbocharge group think. Probably not the best example of an open minded community. A distant cousin of my wife went to a Seminary; within a relatively narrow range of beliefs, he claimed there was a lot more intellectual freedom than universities along the lines of teaching how to talk to devil's advocates and heresies and converting non-believers. More of a carrot and stick than university which is solely stick-style, who can most emphatically say "I can't even" and so on.