If there is no way to input user generated content then you can’t spam.
Yep. If I ever have a meaningful web page, there will be no user comments, because it seems like there is no good solution.
I think there are power balancing mechanism that get a lot more close to proportionality.
I am afraid that online even this wouldn’t work. First, people can make multiple accounts. (The infamous guy on LW 1.0 made several hundreds of them.) Second, I feel that participating in online debates already selects for a worse parts of humanity, simply because some people have better things to do and some don’t.
I prefer the archipelago model of internet. Rationalist websites for rationalists, homeopathic websites for homeopaths; rather than having all of them in the same place fighting each other. But goes against the incentives of the big websites, who want to be for everyone, because that allows them to display advertising to everyone.
On the other hand, creating “reality bubbles” (because, let’s admit it honestly, this is what the archipelago model means) also has its own problems.
One of the issues is that you will struggle to be meaningful if more attractive webpages manage to be attractive because they allow for self-expression or because so many other users are using or viewing them. Part of tyhe problem can be that if you read a news paper you get nicely editorialised content but if you get your news on reddit you can have fun fights in the comments so people will pass on “boring” newspaper because they can’t fullfill their expectation of engagement.
Yep. If I ever have a meaningful web page, there will be no user comments, because it seems like there is no good solution.
I am afraid that online even this wouldn’t work. First, people can make multiple accounts. (The infamous guy on LW 1.0 made several hundreds of them.) Second, I feel that participating in online debates already selects for a worse parts of humanity, simply because some people have better things to do and some don’t.
I prefer the archipelago model of internet. Rationalist websites for rationalists, homeopathic websites for homeopaths; rather than having all of them in the same place fighting each other. But goes against the incentives of the big websites, who want to be for everyone, because that allows them to display advertising to everyone.
On the other hand, creating “reality bubbles” (because, let’s admit it honestly, this is what the archipelago model means) also has its own problems.
One of the issues is that you will struggle to be meaningful if more attractive webpages manage to be attractive because they allow for self-expression or because so many other users are using or viewing them. Part of tyhe problem can be that if you read a news paper you get nicely editorialised content but if you get your news on reddit you can have fun fights in the comments so people will pass on “boring” newspaper because they can’t fullfill their expectation of engagement.