On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/01/2011 11:11 PM, FT2 wrote:
Information is educational.
I fully agree with you. Any information is educational;
I also strongly agree that any information is educational. The two terms are synonymous.
We use 'educational' as a fig leaf that hides a fundamental schism over the future of the movement. There are two very different interpretations of "educational" and thus two fundamentally different visions of the road ahead.
One view holds that information is inherently educational, and in an ideal world, we'd host all the information we could. (with obvious restrictions like legality and not-being-evil). In the future, we will expand the diversity of both our audience AND our content.
A second camp views "educational' in a very narrow "classroom" way. To this group, most information is "garbage/trivial/cruft", not "educational". In an ideal world, our movement would include ONLY the very best educational materials. In the future, we will expand the diversity of our audience while honing our content to only the very best. .. All the same, I'm glad to read that mass content deletion has been taken off the table.
Alec