I've witnessed this pattern in an array of subreddits spanning from hobbies to coding to gaming. Ultimately they become discussion forums for the lowest common denominator of skillsets.
I've witnessed this pattern in an array of subreddits spanning from hobbies to coding to gaming. Ultimately they become discussion forums for the lowest common denominator of skillsets.
That seems like an odd turn of phrase.
Vegetables - way too broad a category. Should be split into leaves, stalks, roots, starches, seeds, alliums, brassicaceae, legumes etc. Calling it all "vegetables" makes it hard for people to rank, prioritize, and proportion which are a better use of time, money, and energy to consume. There might be consensus on eating "vegetables" but not necessarily every group of them. Nutritional density is more complicated than "vegetables."
Whole grains - Antithesis to previous point, grains are not categorized as vegetables. Why are whole grains their own recommended category everywhere as a staple part of diets? Is it cost? Industry lobbying? Diet recommendation should focus on leaves and seeds, with cereals as a filler. Cereal portion should be the one controlled to control weight gain, moreso than plant fat from seeds/nuts. We've gotten too comfortable with a huge serving of rice or potatoes with something thrown on top.
Red meat - carcinogens appear to come from preparation methods (browning, curing) and can be mitigated by vegetable intake. https://examine.com/nutrition/does-red-meat-cause-cancer/
Fruit - mostly as not necessary to a healthy diet as this makes it look like. Can be avoided the same way meat is.
Fish (salmon & sardines) and Seafood (mussels) belongs in the consensus part over fruit.
Doesn't touch on fermented food.
The jury is more out on saturated fat and dietary cholesterol than these government bodies want to admit.
Its hard to reverse course quickly and say "everything we said for the last 30 years is wrong."
Almost none of the diet suggestions focus on digestion, absorption.
I just dont see consensus on what percent of a diet should be grain vs vegetable, starches, legumes, fats, meats. Maybe it doesnt matter. "WFPB is the healthiest diet" is very different from "WFPB is one of the healthiest diets."
Mostly plants is one of multiple ways to an optimal diet.
The science is settled, but like everything else, untrained people can't tell the difference between a good study and a bad study, and the media reports on them all.
Check out the book _How Not to Diet_, which is the most recent masterwork on evidence-based nutrition.
It doesn't take a domain expert to know this claim is fundamentally wrong. Science is never settled. There are conclusions that stand the test of time and accumulated evidence, but nutrition is a field with precious few of those.
/r/programming in a nutshell.
Consequently, I haven't discussed programming on an open forum in over a decade, because I've never found a single programming forum that wasn't openly toxic in this way.
Could that be, because so much of programming is a group activity (understanding, maintaining, and evolving other people’s code), and thus actually benefits (in an evolutionary sense) from simplistic group think more than from innovation and perfection?
Professionals have time for the internet as a hobby. Hobbyists have time for the internet as a job.
Frankly, that's my perception of HN, too. Try telling someone here that running your own email server is easy, for example, and then prepare to fend off the throngs of people clamoring to be the first to tell you that email is hard (tm), and only fastmail can save us from Google's dragnet, oh also email is deprecated and we should just use signal or some other proprietary walled garden.
Well, I guess there are different levels of expectations on what easy means. letsencrypt with dovecot and postfix is the definition of complex legacy, but in times where everything is spam that didn't come from domains with dmarc et all... there might be people that think of "what email server is" differently than you.
/r/askhistorians has kept up their quality through removing top line answers that are not properly cited, sometimes entire posts have nothing other than [deleted].
I think most smaller communities are still pretty valuable, maybe because they are too small or infrequently used to have their users coalesce around a single set of ideas. I think/r/asknetsec is still a pretty good resource even though it’s in the bigger end of small, I’m not sure how it’s kept it’s quality though.
Maybe that’s just reflecting how our species seems to work. The larger the group, the more it turns into a mob unless increasingly tightly structured.
/r/legaladvice is heavily moderated to keep it clean and high quality.
Ken White was banned for deliberate persistent rule breaking and hijacking the sub to make it popehatLegalAdvice.
https://amp.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/7xpggl/what_i...
While /r/legaladvice is heavily moderated, it is not particularly high quality.
So I could format my data for Reddit, or post a simple summary (which looks as authentic as any random poster), or I don't post at all.
I have the highest quality, low cost food Data, but can't post it. But hey Aldi astroturfs and gets away with it.