It's down to the context for me -- part of why I have felt comfortable to shift my personal blog toward spitlighting the work of others = it's relatively lower stakes as a hobby social VR platform.
On the other hand when it enters into topics that can have harmful outcomes, say how we handle medical science, that's where giving any voice an equal weight (unless I misunderstand this writing above!) can open the door to genuine problems the same way shutting down voices by only favoring a narrow metric of "expert" might...
Definitely not equal weight. Hence why I say I trust the readers ability to discern expert voices. I'm arguing here that we stop treating every voice online as an expert by default. Instead, embodying a stance of conversation partner would be advantageous.
Do we need friends and conversation partners? Yes! Do we need experts? Also, yes!
Love it—totally agree.
It's down to the context for me -- part of why I have felt comfortable to shift my personal blog toward spitlighting the work of others = it's relatively lower stakes as a hobby social VR platform.
On the other hand when it enters into topics that can have harmful outcomes, say how we handle medical science, that's where giving any voice an equal weight (unless I misunderstand this writing above!) can open the door to genuine problems the same way shutting down voices by only favoring a narrow metric of "expert" might...
Definitely not equal weight. Hence why I say I trust the readers ability to discern expert voices. I'm arguing here that we stop treating every voice online as an expert by default. Instead, embodying a stance of conversation partner would be advantageous.