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If we’re having a wake… I remember when I accidentally became a moderator of /r/science because they asked for variety of domain expertise and I’m a geographer

If we’re having a wake… I remember when I accidentally became a moderator of /r/science because they asked for variety of domain expertise and I’m a geographer and c’mon… nobody’s a geographer. It was a fun experience. Then became an educational one. Then frustrating. Then thankless. Then I stopped. I’m happy for the lessons. I’m sad it died years ago.

goalieca 3y ago
I had totally forgotten that you had a flair showing your expertise. I did some computer vision stuff for a while. You wouldn’t recognize r/science of the early days though. Reddit is a completely different site.
- Auracle 3y ago
  r/science is now r/poorStudiesThatJustifyMyBeliefs
  - Gareth321 3y ago
    You aren’t kidding. Add r/Psychology to that list. It’s all bad social science studies now. “Study Proves Republicans are Dumb”
    - vGPU 3y ago
      I’m fairly certain that rephrased versions of “Study Proves Trump Voters have low IQ” are posted there just about weekly, and the rest is just psychedelic research. It’s one of the laws of the internet: as the size of a community grows, the quality approaches a stadium full of drunk sweaty sports fans.
      - r3vo 3y ago
        One of the reasons I hope hacker news stays relatively obscure. Fingers crossed
        vGPU 3y ago
        Agreed. I’ve definitely already noticed a significant decline in comment quality here since the Reddit debacle.
        tdhz77 3y ago
        ^^ Comments like this are low value. “Things are getting bad”. No proof or evidence.
  - pms 3y ago
    Not just r/science. The hard part is that this logic applies also to "word/science" and to "world/society", and that this issue of belief confirmation will deepen until we learn to sufficiently value public good (knowledge discovery is a part of it) in our capitalist societies. Not easy... Unfortunately, it may take another World War for our societies to value public good more than we do currently. Call me a pessimist or give me reasons to think differently.
bozhark 3y ago
2015
pierat 3y ago
Im a systems engineer who works with 5 geographers, and a director who is a double PhD geographer. The geospatial engineering we do is a thing of art, and affects over 11 million people. I get it!
- Waterluvian 3y ago
  Geographers are like wizards: there’s only so many of us at any one time. I’m amazed your company has amassed six!
- gmreads 3y ago
  Sounds very interesting, can you expand a bit more on what exactly your team does?
ffiirree 3y ago
r/science went from being one of the highest quality places on the whole internet... to being like the rest of the internet

goalieca 3y ago

I had totally forgotten that you had a flair showing your expertise. I did some computer vision stuff for a while. You wouldn’t recognize r/science of the early days though. Reddit is a completely different site.

Auracle 3y ago
r/science is now r/poorStudiesThatJustifyMyBeliefs
- Gareth321 3y ago
  You aren’t kidding. Add r/Psychology to that list. It’s all bad social science studies now. “Study Proves Republicans are Dumb”
  - vGPU 3y ago
    I’m fairly certain that rephrased versions of “Study Proves Trump Voters have low IQ” are posted there just about weekly, and the rest is just psychedelic research. It’s one of the laws of the internet: as the size of a community grows, the quality approaches a stadium full of drunk sweaty sports fans.
    - r3vo 3y ago
      One of the reasons I hope hacker news stays relatively obscure. Fingers crossed
      - vGPU 3y ago
        Agreed. I’ve definitely already noticed a significant decline in comment quality here since the Reddit debacle.
        tdhz77 3y ago
        ^^ Comments like this are low value. “Things are getting bad”. No proof or evidence.
- pms 3y ago
  Not just r/science. The hard part is that this logic applies also to "word/science" and to "world/society", and that this issue of belief confirmation will deepen until we learn to sufficiently value public good (knowledge discovery is a part of it) in our capitalist societies. Not easy... Unfortunately, it may take another World War for our societies to value public good more than we do currently. Call me a pessimist or give me reasons to think differently.

bozhark 3y ago

2015

pierat 3y ago

Im a systems engineer who works with 5 geographers, and a director who is a double PhD geographer. The geospatial engineering we do is a thing of art, and affects over 11 million people. I get it!

Waterluvian 3y ago
Geographers are like wizards: there’s only so many of us at any one time. I’m amazed your company has amassed six!
gmreads 3y ago
Sounds very interesting, can you expand a bit more on what exactly your team does?

ffiirree 3y ago

r/science went from being one of the highest quality places on the whole internet... to being like the rest of the internet