Influx of misinformation.

[thedude110]

Is this what we've come to? Rating people?

Do you walk around with a rating bar over your head all the time?

If people give bad information, correct it. Then prove that your information isn't bad.

By their nature bulletin boards are indeterminate -- they are people voicing what they believe to be true and then circling toward a consenus (or falling off to entropy).

But why teach other people -- or engage their disagreements -- when we can dismiss them with a click of a "wrong" button?

Nothing like meta-cyber-stereotyping at the end of the work week ...

 

[Doctor Q]

Do you walk around with a rating bar over your head all the time?

It looks like it, but it's actually a cell phone signal strength bar.

 

[Currawong]

In any forum, there's always going to be a degree of crap. It's inevitable.

Speaking of misinformation, I'd say that that the online Apple community is misinformed in general. Reading people post about Apple is like reading celebrity fan sites.

Back when I started online at university, the web had just been created and pretty much only academics and university students were online. I could say that with the influx of teenagers it's all gone downhill. Kids are kids though.

The other thing that has brought it all downhill is so-called experts at the big news websites writing crap to generate attention and advertising dollars.

On the big news sites, you download more k's of advertising garbage than you do content, and it takes up more physical space too. Much like women's magazines are half advertising. In forums, people are more concerned with how cool their avatar and sig are than the quality of their posts. Excuse the rudeness, but the web feels like one massive wank.

People who use Macs professionally don't go around web forums reading posts as much as people who don't have much to do. Have you noticed this? (FYI: It's a public holiday where I am now, that's my excuse for this post.)

 

[CanadaRAM]

<semi-sarcasm>
So we'll just stick to our dictator ways?
</semi-sarcasm>

Yes. Because in this instance, dictatorship works best.

Remember, this is Arn's sandbox. He just lets us play in it.

 

[grapes911]

Speaking of misinformation, I'd say that that the online Apple community is misinformed in general. Reading people post about Apple is like reading celebrity fan sites.

I think you are totally wrong here. MR is the only forum I use, but I think most people here are very informed. I can't imagine this being the bottom of the barrel.

In forums, people are more concerned with how cool their avatar and sig are than the quality of their posts. Excuse the rudeness, but the web feels like one massive wank.

The thread isn't about the web. It's about one site, this site. I feel most of the regulars here put quality first over 'tars and sigs.

People who use Macs professionally don't go around web forums reading posts as much as people who don't have much to do. Have you noticed this?

No, I haven't. There are many successful professionals on this site who use Macs daily.



"Excuse the rudeness", but maybe this site isn't for you?

 

[wmmk]

I suspect that the use of this feature on this forum is reserved for just a few.

like me