On: Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?

[shadowgovt]

In the post-truth era, (3) will become increasingly vital because reputation is the only tool we have to distinguish signal from noise.

[indus → shadowgovt]

Choosing to be anonymous is one thing but not verifying the identity is another.

Why do we favor content from anonymous identities that disrupt the flow—-is a big question running as mods for communities.

[scrame → shadowgovt]

and reputation is what, reddit karma? fb likes? prom king? blue checks on Twitter? FORMER bluechecks?

Its the opposite of an open platform to rank people by the same social media stuff that OP is saying doesn't work because it still wants a centralized form of reputation.

You can't resurrect the old usenet the way OP is talking about because he doesn't know what usenet was.

[indus → scrame]

reputation is a lazy filter.