HACKER Q&A
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How Compare Online Communities?


Curious if anyone has any suggestions for systematically measuring how reasoned, fact-based, knowledgeable, biased, on-topic, etc — one online community is relative to other online communities?


  👤 lookagain Accepted Answer ✓
In your post, you say you want a biased community, but that seems incongruous with the rest of the items you're looking for in a community. Perhaps you meant "unbiased" -- could you clarify this?

There is a word in sanskrit satya, which means truth-seeking. Satya is one of a handful of ideas forming the basis of a practice called the eight limbs of yoga. The idea is that thought precedes action, and if you don't clear your mind, you undermine your yoga practice. Put another way, you don't receive the full benefits of yoga if you're distracted by competing desires. I think truth-seeking is an incredibly worthwhile goal.

Having said that, I have never heard of a perfectly informed person let alone a community. No choice is neutral, therefore everything a person says or thinks or does is opinionated.

However, I must admit my own ignorance. If you continue to seek such a community, I would be interested in hearing the outcome of such a search. Maybe I could learn something too :) Thank you for sharing!


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Closest I am able to think of is recent tool Facebook released for checking citations on Wikipedia:

https://tech.fb.com/artificial-intelligence/2022/07/how-ai-c...