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Why sorv would make it easier for content creators to accept criticismThe problem with criticism the way it is usually delivered, is that it's perfectly rational for a content creator to believe there are reasons why it might not be valid. In particular, these two cases:
However, if you show the content to a random sample of your target audience, who evaluate the content without communicating with each other, and most people in the sample independently come up with the same criticism, then most of the target audience will probably share the same opinion. It might be naively optimistic to think that even in such circumstances, most users would graciously accept criticism. However, the best you can do is to present evidence that a representative random sample of their target audience, independently looked at the content and most of them formed the same opinion. A defensive content creator could still respond by saying:
This argument applies to the case where someone is submitting content to be rated based on quality, but the same argument applies if the user is submitting a "fact-check" rebuttal to be voted on by other fact-checkers, or submitting a terms-of-service violation to be voted on by other users who handle abuse reports -- it's possibly easier to accept rejection if multiple people independently vote that your submission is invalid. One difference is that when submitting a fact-check or a terms-of-service violation, if the other users vote it down, the original user can't use the "great art ahead of its time" excuse. Great art may, indeed, be ahead of its time, but there is no such thing as a fact-check or an abuse report that's ahead of its time -- fact-checks and abuse reports are based on the facts as they are understood today, or the rules as they would be understood by the average person. |