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For the same reason cities suffer when people flee to the suburbs. If individuals can personally opt out of public problems, they have no incentive to work to
by pg 17y ago
For the same reason cities suffer when people flee to the suburbs. If individuals can personally opt out of public problems, they have no incentive to work to solve them. In this case by flagging offtopic posts and criticizing mistaken ones in the comments.
- zimbabwe 17y agoYou're equating a physical reality with a virtual one. The whole of the Internet is about filtration. There's no "real" location that grows worse or that requires effort. Besides, a per-site filter won't stop offtopic posts from being flagged, or debates from starting. They'll only allow certain people to ignore certain posts, which those people want to do anyway. I for one wouldn't block TechCrunch, and I'm certain many more would keep reading it as well.