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I strongly disagree about "lower-quality people". Yes, some people post low quality content, say horrible things and behave antisocially. Yes, in a community yo
by dancek 6y ago
I strongly disagree about "lower-quality people". Yes, some people post low quality content, say horrible things and behave antisocially. Yes, in a community you want to restrict destructive behavior (by excluding people if need be).
But deep inside we all are, at times, selfish and evil, and at times, beautiful and wise. You can learn something from everyone. But you need to meet people at their terms. For some, it's over an esoteric internet protocol that you need to be a geek to use. And for some, it's over a glass of cheap lager in the backyard of an auto repair shop.
- bzb6 6y ago> You can learn something from everyone. That’s... extremely charitable.
- lovemenot 6y agoPerhaps. And if so, it is charitable to those whose closed-mindedness prevents them learning something from anything and anybody.
- iFreilicht 6y agoIt's just the way it is. You can learn something from the biggest idiot, they make mistakes that you never thought possible. You just have to watch and learn.
- dredmorbius 6y agoThis may be true ... ... but if idiots are merely mistake-generating engines, then any one source of entropy (or representative sample) is equivalent to any other, or at least so long as interaction, longitudinal, and scaling effects are excluded, and even those can be reasonably easily acquired. Representations are readily obtained. Expertise and skill are definitionally rare, expensive to acquire, expensive to assess, and readily discouraged or convinced a nonproductive platform or environment simply is not worth their bother. Rare, hard to find, hard to assess, easily spooked.