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There is an important difference between "leading edge" and "fringe", in this context. Most useful stuff comes from the leading edge. Occasionally from the fr
by ska 3y ago
There is an important difference between "leading edge" and "fringe", in this context.
Most useful stuff comes from the leading edge. Occasionally from the fringe, but the SNR there is terrible. Either way though, by the time you want it written up in an encyclopedia it's been sorted out if it's useful for something.
If you just write up everything, you'll be drowning in half-baked ideas and crackpot theories, the net damage to the value of the place far outweighs any positives.
- pard68 3y agoThis is probably valid, I'd have to think on it some. As a rule I am against the silencing of thought. I think I can see where you'd be right, but how do you guard against the feedback loop, things not on Wikipedia do not gain traction because they're not on Wikipedia.
- ska 3y agoI guess I don’t think of an encyclopedia as the place to work that out, mainly because its function as an encyclopedia is thereby lessened. Do you feel like there are a shortage of places to discuss ideas that don’t have much traction?