had a dream there was a fox and raccoon who travelled together to commit crimes on houses with large yards and quiet streets
i also had a dream that @aescling had strongly held beliefs about tagging. i didn’t quite agree with them so i spent some time browsing the internet for an essay i remembered reading previously. this involved looking at a couple of personal homepages with great design and lots of interesting thoughts and content, the sort which don’t really exist anymore in reality. alas, we have lost our way
the reason the internet is so shit right now is that the job expectations of your average hobbyist website maker have been steadily increasing for the past two decades and nobody has time to maintain an interesting resource on the web for free anymore
@Lady Hmm.
Fanwikis are still reliable. Is that an exception to the rule or an exceptional audience?
(Or am I wrong and fanwikis are increasingly losing reliability.)
@gaditb i think many fanwikis do have sustainability issues and high administrative turnover, they’re just structured better than most to be able to tolerate that
the downside is that fanwikis can largely only ever be written from a neutral point of view, because subjective/innovative/interesting interpretations can’t tolerate constant contributor turnover as easily
@gaditb fanwikis definitely can not support essays in the genre of “here is what i personally think and why i believe that, with references and citations”, which is the big gap in the internet’s information resources right now
