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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Readercon code of conduct
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 03:37:17 -0000 (UTC)
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D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 May 2024, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> 
>> Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
>>> If this thread ever gets back to convention codes of conduct,
>>> someone ping me.  I've skipped over most of it.
>> 
>> Volume here is low enough, why not read everything?  (Except the
>> Dr. Who verbal diarrhea of course.)
>> 
> 
> I think the thread has lost its moment, due to the magical "meeting of 
> minds" and growing of empathy that so often occurs on usenet! ;)
> 

Ive noticed a growing trend of people who reject formal expertise
and rigorous, data based knowledge development, instead loudly
espousing ill informed, unsupported positions, mostly obtained
from social media. D is certainly an example of this, but it happens
to a lot of people, in  areas in which they aren't experts themselves.

It's a disheartening phenomenon.

I think it makes people feel 'smart', that they have a special handle on
what's going on, even when it's based on demonstrable idiocies.

Social media enable this, allowing every crackpot to find a community 
of the equally cracked.

Pt