Comment by dnemmers

For some things, good enough is good enough. For many things, it is not (and neither are random posts on the internet). Before Web 2.0, it was similar to whether I'd trust some random person on the street with it versus going and looking it up in Encyclopaedia Britannica, or the American Heritage Dictionary, or Roget's Thesaurus, or the UC Davis Book of Dogs, or the Cornell Book of Cats, or the Merck Manual, or even the World Almanac or Bartlett’s Quotations if I was feeling petty.