Informed Electorate Bans Half Of Itself ... Including It's Own Moderators

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.)



Have currency operations ever shown up on Reddit? It may already be too late.

Reddit (Basically) Just Banned Half the Internet

Juvenile journalism commits teen suicide. How typical.

The last lines, revealing the moderators had accidentally banned themselves, is priceless.

With junior censors, er ... moderators like these, who needs an informed electorate?

Every species, including modern nation-states, is in a race to be selectively informed. Yet the race is to make those selections adaptive. If Reddit works by efficiently & democratically up/down-voting articles, questions remain.

How to up/down-vote informed vs naive feedback?

How to up/down-vote adaptive vs maladaptive moderators?

How to do both of those steps faster/better/leaner, i.e., more adaptively?

We as a people continue to live or die by our collective, adaptive tempo, not just our academic selections.