[Tagging] Constructive communication medium (was:Filter bubbles in OSM)

[Mateusz Konieczny]

25 May 2019, 17:44 by f at zz.de:

> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 02:28:45AM +0200, Tobias Zwick wrote:
>
>>
>> 1. Thesis: Mailing lists (and to a lesser degree, classical forums) promote a culture of dissent.
>>
>
> I strongly disagree here. How can a technical form of communication
> make a "culture of dissent"?
>
Some forums, slack allow you to
add +1 to a comment in acceptable
nonspammy way without changing 
visibility of content [1]
As result with opinion that is shared
by 20 people and one opponent you may get:

On forum with upvotes enabled:

1 opposing reply
20 "xyz liked this post"

On mailing list:

1 opposing reply

For many second is much more frustrating
than the first one.
> From a sociological point i would assume that people on the mailinglist
> are by average 10 Years older than people on Slack or the Forum. Thats
> just a matter of history of technology.
>
That is probably also an 
important factor, there are likely also
other confounders.

[1] allowing upvotes/downvotes to
affect content visibility results in
other group of unwanted effects
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