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one of the main problems with the blogosphere is that people just cite each other as evidence of legitimacy. When I said that this story was linkbait crap some
by nazgulnarsil 18y ago
one of the main problems with the blogosphere is that people just cite each other as evidence of legitimacy. When I said that this story was linkbait crap someone linked me to a different site that was using the exact same video for justification.
I don't want democracy to infect the web like it has infected science and everything else. A lot of people agreeing with you means nothing. It might have meant something in the ancestral environment, when convincing everyone made you more powerful within the tribe. But we don't live in tribes anymore.
- davidw 18y ago> A lot of people agreeing with you means nothing. Of course, that depends entirely on why they agree with you. Perhaps they have independently verified what you have to say, or otherwise arrived at the same conclusions, and agree with you because of that. The problem is the 'information cascade' when more people start agreeing with you just because "all those other people do too".