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Originally posted by IndianaTED
I asked for knowledge of anything else in AB. I think that if they print it, then it is pretty legit. I mean, they have a reputation to be concerned about too.
In print all information is edited, condensed...print publication is heavily controlled. And for all the reasons mentioned above, good and bad.
There's less control online. MCW protects their reputation too, but this is a community-driven project. WE'RE the community, we want to participate and it's accessible to us: great news. The bad news is that in being equally-accessible, it's accessible to informed experts as democratically as to - huh huh [}:)] - "experts" in their own minds. That is, everyone.
Middle ground is the responsibility of all post authors. We all know the parameters and policies of the site: we agreed to them. Any board would have the same challenges re: 'legitimate info'. Unless we want each post to be individually screened by moderators - as do print publishers, deciding who has enough fact and coherance to actually appear here, limiting the voice (let's face it, most of us would get no airtime at all) - we'll continue to self-mediate.
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