Re: Readercon code of conduct

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