>>106008774
im not that faggot, doebeiterald (should i say)

>>105694815
>an individual who is good at extracting info for themselves will get better results from a wider array of users provided there's a mixtute of users including idiots and experts
and a site cannot work as an information aggregator because...?
thats the """elitism"""" function in most communities
you amplify the signal to noise ratio
yes you dont have absolutely *all* the information
but its like running a search algorythm, except you leverage the properties of the data
and what makes you think that reddit is not an aggregator too, but of everything bad?
in practice i know its not the case bc of the sample size and normal distribution, but even the latter will be skewed because of reddit's culture
which is true for most if not every site, the difference being where is the distribution skewed towards
>consider how open source software works through worldwide contributions by anyone on planet earth.
theres is a barrier of entry to that.
theres a selection among the public
democratization of the process would equate to injecting people who dont program at all in the process to mimick the stats of the general population