--- Denny Colt wikidenny@gmail.com wrote:
Why don't we just change BLP and RS immediately to not say blogs? It has been demonstrated here to be a red herring to actively--I'll say this... *discriminate* against what is becoming the most common publishing format on the entire internet.
Mass-replace "BLOG" with "unreliable source" or "unreliable website" if you want to be internet specific, and done.
The current policy inappropriately actively discriminates and is biased in its wording...
The thing is, what percentage of blogs are reliable sources? .1%? .01%? There are millions of blogs, and maybe 1 in 1000 or 10,000 are by notable people, the rest are by random college students and teenagers and various others who are writing for their friends and family members to read.
A general "Don't use blogs" with a footnote of "except the very rare occasion where you can" seems quite reasonable to me. We should be actively discriminating against blogs, at least against the 99.99 percent of them which are no different than a teenaged girl's diary.
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