Jonathan, ‘most people’ (even on this site) did not reply to komponisto’s post. To be fair to the site, I would not yet conclude for certain that a majority of the people on this site came to the wrong conclusion, given we don’t actually know what a majority of the people on this site concluded.
Also, I specifically cherry-picked this as the sole issue (out of hundreds) that the LW community seems the most wrong about, so that skews things as well. I don’t think the komponisto fiasco should reflect too poorly on LW as a whole.
I was talking about people who posted an opinion as to the probable guilt of the accused. While I think the first few such posts clearly had done the work of traversing the pro- anti- and wikipedia sites suggested, many later comments were based primarily on the evidence selected by previous players.
I could be completely wrong about that, but that’s how I felt: not motivated to filter through “the internet” for evidence, but interested in the discussion, and allowing myself to update based on facts brought to my attention by others.
I do believe that “most people” (hopefully not here) really can’t be trusted to have actually thought things through, though.
Jonathan, ‘most people’ (even on this site) did not reply to komponisto’s post. To be fair to the site, I would not yet conclude for certain that a majority of the people on this site came to the wrong conclusion, given we don’t actually know what a majority of the people on this site concluded.
Also, I specifically cherry-picked this as the sole issue (out of hundreds) that the LW community seems the most wrong about, so that skews things as well. I don’t think the komponisto fiasco should reflect too poorly on LW as a whole.
I was talking about people who posted an opinion as to the probable guilt of the accused. While I think the first few such posts clearly had done the work of traversing the pro- anti- and wikipedia sites suggested, many later comments were based primarily on the evidence selected by previous players.
I could be completely wrong about that, but that’s how I felt: not motivated to filter through “the internet” for evidence, but interested in the discussion, and allowing myself to update based on facts brought to my attention by others.
I do believe that “most people” (hopefully not here) really can’t be trusted to have actually thought things through, though.