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Either you "believe" in decentralized governance systems or you don't. If you do, then this means your participation is required for improvement (edit articles,
by nipponese 8y ago
Either you "believe" in decentralized governance systems or you don't. If you do, then this means your participation is required for improvement (edit articles, run a bitcoin full node, etc) which in practice is more expensive in resources and effort. If you don't, then just sit back and relax, but also accept you're just going to have to trust those centralizing influence a variety of incentives.
- k1m 8y agoYou make it sound like it's the perfect system just lacking enough participation. What makes you think everyone has the time to devote to it. Or that there aren't people with more money and resources who can influence it? It's seen by many as a neutral source. We're trying to highlight how easy it is to manipulate.
- bhouston 8y agoI believe it is very manipulated. Much more than is commonky acknowledged.
- tjpnz 8y agoIf only it were that easy in practice. The Wikipedia community can be a genuinely hostile place - and I'm not the kind of person who uses that term lightly. I've made a handful of small edits to pages over the last decade and everytime it's been an exercise in frustration. It typically ends in reverts at the hands of overly pedantic editors who've ordained themselves as permanent caretakers over a wide range of related articles. If you have a problem with the revert you then have to deal with that same editor on the Talk page, difficult if you've other commitments in life.
- twic 8y ago"The tree of knowledge must be refreshed from time to time with the sweat of editors"