Sorry, had to run off for a couple of days. On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:51:37 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2004-03-12, Chris Metzler penned: >> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:32:36 -0600 >> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Now do likewise for the general media. The difference? The articles >>> are always written in an authoritative tone, and there is _no_ >>> discussion and_no_ comments. >> >> I'm confused as to what you're trying to say. It seems like you're >> saying that one source of crappy information (e.g. a news story in >> your local newspaper) isn't as good as a different source of crappy >> information (i.e. /.), because even though /.'s information is >> crappy, there's a lot *more* of it. (since, after all, it's in that >> discussion and commentary at /. that the crappiness resides) > > Er, no. At least, that's not how I understood it. > > As I understand it, > > Both official media sources and slashdot can contain inaccurate > statements.
I agree.
> The difference is, slashdot actually offers the chance for
> uncensored peer review and commentary.
I agree. My claims are that 1) gross inaccuracies are even *more*
frequent on /. than they are in more conventional media; 2) useful
corrections and clarifications of those gross inaccuracies on /.,
while sometimes present, are much much less frequent and don't really
come close to stemming the tide of bad information; 3) finding those
corrections, and indeed the good posts in general, takes a lot of
time and effort.
> Moderation isn't censorship --
> you can still read the comments if you want to.
I agree. And some of the best posts on /. -- including many of
the corrections of posts that are just-plain-wrong -- come from
anonymous posters. Unfortunately, usually in order to see them,
you have to be willing to wade through ASCII art of people pulling
their butt cheeks apart, racism/bestiality posts, crapflooding,
etc.
-c
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