but I cannot hold authors that I've never met accountable, and it is not a job, when you do it in your blog. it is utter nonsense to call writing personal notes in public a job. it is as much a job (and bears similiar responsibility) as is the opensource work, and we've had hundreds of discussions reg. how the author should not be responsible for shortcomings of his public work, when it is done without contract or other formal agreement to do it (even for free).

work != job

so really, what are you talking about? I'm discussing the means to expound on given knowledge - limited, or oversaturated - and you are changing the topic to "is the author responsible for work done in his spare time".

lets focus, people.

try curating the hacker news commentary when there are 800+ texts. no, really, what the hell are you talking about? having someone figure the insights that are relevant to oneself, among 800 texts, DOES solve a problem, which otherwise is unsolved unless you do it manually. which, the manual thing, as we all know, does not necessarily result in significantly better insights.

and yes, my job is to read technical slop dusk till dawn, and I care very little who wrote it, but whether it is relevant to my research. its a lot of reading, it causes me pain, so OF COURSE I would love to short cut it somehow, given most of it is slop anyway - no matter if its human or synthetic slop.