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It's not just someone else's opinion, it's agreed upon opinion. The alternative is the authoritative approach.
by potatototoo99 4y ago
It's not just someone else's opinion, it's agreed upon opinion. The alternative is the authoritative approach.
- Karunamon 4y agoThe alternative is not using the platform's voice to privilege viewpoints at all.
- logifail 4y ago> It's not just someone else's opinion, it's agreed upon opinion Q: Agreed upon by whom? I'm reminded of this quotation: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." which The Big Short (2015) says is Twain but I gather probably isn't.
- zzzeek 4y agothe most important issues are those where there is no agreement. i've already seen some birdwatch "fact checks" that were much more misleading than the thing they were "fact checking"
- machina_ex_deus 4y agoNo, the alterative is that the opinion is voiced by someone specific, anonymous or not, with everyone's intuition about people saying things coming into account. The way it's implemented, the opinion is practically anonymous, with no one accountable for it, but given a false cover of authority. If the context is an article by someone, I don't mind if the algorithm somehow finds the relevant twit by the relevant journalist who authored that article, and tends to show them together, as equals. That's fine by me. I disagree with the UI choice of giving visual significance to a specific opinion.