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Every wrong thing posted to the internet increases the chance of the right thing being posted later. You can't invent a lightbulb without the 10,000 failed atte
by anonytrary 5y ago
Every wrong thing posted to the internet increases the chance of the right thing being posted later. You can't invent a lightbulb without the 10,000 failed attempts that came before it. The noise is here to stay. Nobody promised that exploring the edges of human thought would be a clean process. It is very messy and people should be afforded the opportunity to be messy.
- duncan-donuts 5y agoTotally agree and being messy is a feature and not a bug. And if you’re messy enough you might annoy someone enough that they’ll actually put you on the right path.
- BeetleB 5y agoOne of the explicit goals of Stack Overflow when it was founded was literally to fight this phenomenon: The preponderance of wrong/outdated information on the Internet. To a large extent, it has succeeded. Even if the chosen correct answer is no longer correct, there usually is a comment/answer further down pointing out what now works. So while creating noise is necessary, there is value to curation.