On 18/11/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:00:29 +0000, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The Community(tm) is far too often collectively an idiot
And yet we trust it to edit the world's biggest encyclopaedia...
Not in any way a contradiction. The wisdom of crowds happens when it happens. The Community has shown it can write an encyclopedia. The Community has shown it's really bad at dealing with many of the indirect processes involved. Just as with people, ability in one area does not confer ability in another, and I'm surprised you seem to think it does.
- d.