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Yeah, honestly -- who would vote this article up? I wonder if we need something akin to meta-moderation, to account for people who vote up low-quality articles
by neilc 18y ago
Yeah, honestly -- who would vote this article up?
I wonder if we need something akin to meta-moderation, to account for people who vote up low-quality articles.
- jcl 18y agoPerhaps I am being overly cynical, but I suspect that bad articles get voted up by people who have posted snarky comments, in hopes that more people will read the article and agree with them on how bad it is. Of course, this wouldn't explain the current score (more upvotes than posters), so perhaps some of the votes are from trolls, accidental clicks, people who only read titles, people who think the article is ironically amusing, or people who want to draw attention to bad content in hopes that mechanisms are put in place for its banning/removal.
- JabavuAdams 18y agonetwork of trust?
- Tichy 18y agoI liked it and voted it up. But I knew it would get lots of bad comments because of the spelling mistakes. That's just arrogance to me - you can't expect everybody to be a native speaker of English.
- neilc 18y agoI thought the article was pretty terrible, but not because of the spelling mistakes. As an aside, just because you're not a native speaker of English is not an excuse for poor spelling: a foreigner can use a spellchecker just as well as a native speaker.
- Tichy 18y agoHm, but they don't get it right all the time, and the article was old. Maybe back then the options weren't as good.