> "Wisdom of the crowd" used to be one of the big selling points of the internet. I don't think this was true until sometime in the 00s when voting systems wer

> "Wisdom of the crowd" used to be one of the big selling points of the internet. I don't think this was true until sometime in the 00s when voting systems were popularized. I don't recall anybody talking about crowd wisdom and hiveminds in the context of IRC chatrooms, mailing lists, or geocity pages. There was an understanding that whoever you were talking to might be smart or might be stupid; there was no crowd mechanism to put false trust in.