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I'm not sure if moving from the biases of wikipedia editors to the biases of wikipedia staff would necessarily be a positive
by sebzim4500 1y ago
I'm not sure if moving from the biases of wikipedia editors to the biases of wikipedia staff would necessarily be a positive
- IshKebab 1y agoIt depends. Often staff are a lot more even handed than volunteer editors because you have to be a bit weird and love moderating to do it voluntarily, but it's pretty normal to do it as a job. StackOverflow has this problem (or had, before it died) - the mods were hugely invested in closing questions for basically any reason, so normal users ended up hating it and the company couldn't make any changes to improve things because whenever they tried the mods revolted. It's not as much of an issue with Wikipedia because most Wikipedia users aren't actually editing articles and running into any moderation issues.