h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Great.
We need you to keep thinking though. In the past, the best ideas have not always been the most likely to come to pass. I think that in this environment, the best ideas have a very good chance. It's almost unsettling.

Ha. I've only just made an attempt to look at some of the other conversations I'm "subscribed" to from the past few days. In that light, this past post of mine is sort of humorous.

I need to get writing again. That would relax me, and I could feel like I was doing something constructive. However, like everyone else, my problem is time. I can devote an hour here or there to arguing with Gnomon or writing a manifesto, but the sustained process of researching and writing is too much for me right now. Maybe soon.

That debate about moderation is a funny thing, because unlike many of these debates, everyone wants exactly the same thing. They want legal protection, for malicious (and sure, plagiarizing) posts to be hidden and for the system to be accountable and unobtrusive for legitimate content. Those things seem self-evident to me. Common sense, even. Yet we argue.

The best part though, of course, is that whoever buys h2g2 (and, um, I sort of doubt it will be h2g2 members) will almost certainly take the advice of people other than h2g2 community members in formulating a moderation system. Can't say I blame them, either, to be honest.

It's all a giant, unnecessary distraction from talking about the things that actually matter. That and some other categories of conversations I could name.

I can't tell if I'm becoming jaded again already, or if I'm just tired tonight.