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I love the idea, but I think it impractical. It's too difficult stop it degenerating into "this guy looks a bit shifty", "this guy is standing weird", "this wom
by shocks 14y ago
I love the idea, but I think it impractical. It's too difficult stop it degenerating into "this guy looks a bit shifty", "this guy is standing weird", "this woman isn't laughing", etc.
Just look here[1] and you'll see it's already happening.
[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cf5wp/2013_boston_marathon_attacks_please_upload_any/ http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cf5wp/2013_boston_m...
- drzaiusapelord 14y agoOr worse, this guy is $ethnic_minority or $people_I_dont_like
- incision 14y agoAnyone thinking about enabling further crowdsourced investigative work would do well to read that thread [1] with an eye to how quickly it got out of hand. In my opinion... Efforts to help with this should focus on helping people to submit any data and information with relevant context they have in a consistent format to the relevant authorities, nothing more. 1: http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cf5wp/2013_boston_marathon_attacks_please_upload_any/ http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cf5wp/2013_boston_m...