Comment by cxr
2 years ago
> My reaction when I first heard of the concept of a "wiki" where everyone is allowed to edit some post (curiously before I heard about Wikipedia): I thought such a system would immediately be ruined
There are people who think that today, despite well-known existence proofs we have to the contrary.
I mean a lot of internet places have been destroyed by vandalism and upkeep costs, what were seeing us just survivorship bias and survival of the fittest.
In other words, existence proofs that such systems won't automatically be ruined.
I'd disagree, they require a massive amount of moderation and clean up to keep running. The default state is ruined and only by herculean effort is it usable by others.
It's like a park in a high drug use area. Quite often they are ruined, and only by massive expenditure of effort are is it even near safe.
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