Timeline for 2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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| Sep 22, 2017 at 19:26 | history | edited | KorvinStarmast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2017 at 19:20 | history | edited | KorvinStarmast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2017 at 17:18 | comment | added | Jae Carr | The moral is, they are a little locked into the "wisdom of the crowd" mode here. And while I'll acknowledge that works in cases where the theory is easily tested (like programming), it raises huge issues in areas where the only way to test the theory is to try it and see if anyone dies (like here). Despite all of this.... I don't think there's any will to do anything about it. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 17:17 | comment | added | Jae Carr | I once posted a comprehensive and reasonable solution to this exact issue to Meta. It didn't go well: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/259241/… | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 23:08 | comment | added | mins | "If you don't understand that sentence, then we don't have a basis for conversation", now I see better how you can sort the good grapes from the bad. But I don't support it. No other comment. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 22:30 | comment | added | TomMcW | My soapbox for today :) | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 22:28 | comment | added | TomMcW | Misinformation is one of the biggest challenges society faces in the internet age. I support any effort to combat it. In most discussion groups or comment threads the idiot has the same voice as the expert with no good way to temper it with reason. In your standard forum thread all you can do is try to shout them down. SE provides a means for community consensus to counter the idiocy. That's why I like the format better than others. Of course, if the idiots begin to outnumber the experts it breaks down, but with diligence we can prevent that. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 22:04 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @mins If you don't understand that sentence, then we don't have a basis for conversation. As I mentioned to Tom, I am going to sit on this for a bit. I am not comfortable with some of the philosophy behind this particular SE site, since it covers something deadly serious. Sites like History SE or SciFi SE can afford to be careless. The subject matter doesn't matter. Aviation does. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 21:57 | comment | added | mins | "I can't take your comment seriously", do you mean... you don't have examples to clarify? Or there is no need to clarify? Because "the spread of misinformation in the internet age goes at the speed of electricity, and in aviation misinformation is potentially lethal" is absolutely not clear to me. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 21:47 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @TomMcW Please leave this comment up. I am going to ponder for a bit, and maybe start a meta, and may use your comment as the anchor. Not sure. My last few inputs were not well received, and I'd rather not urinate into the wind. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 21:45 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @mins I can't take your comment seriously. Sorry. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 21:45 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @TomMcW I see your point, and find your approach to have merit, but I note that no such policy is current at this stack. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 19:56 | comment | added | TomMcW | Personally, if I'm going through the queue and saw a comment that it was incorrect or unsafe I'd dig into it to see what was up and if was wrong I'd vote to del | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 19:43 | comment | added | TomMcW | I agree with you that misinformation should be dealt with, especially if it's safety related. I'm just not sure that's a moderator function. If something is demonstrably wrong, and not just your opinion, the way to deal with it is to a) comment on the answer indicating that it is misinformation, then b) flag it as "should be deleted." That will put it in the review queue and if enough ppl say to nix it then it will be gone. No mood needed | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 20:58 | comment | added | mins | Who'll decide what is good and what is wrong information, when things are a bit more complex than the flat Earth? Some examples to clarify would be helpful. | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 20:43 | history | edited | KorvinStarmast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2017 at 21:28 | history | answered | KorvinStarmast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |