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Trust with Jimmy Wales

A Bit of Optimism

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The Importance of Community Control in Social Media

In social media, it's what I would say is we have come to this point where the model doesn't really have any kind of genuine community controls. And there's not really much you can do. You have very powerless. Whereas at Wikipedia, although I do acknowledge the problem is vastly simpler. Yeah. Writing in a encyclopedia. Community manages all of that. How many people are, you know, I don't know what you call them super users, but like the people who are mostly maintaining Wikipedia. So if you look at the number of people who edit at least five times a month, that's like 70 to 80,000. That's pretty active. But five times a week

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