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I often read topics where I am an expert, the comments has better information than the blog in most cases. Comments are written by multiple people since there are corrections from others below the comments etc, that makes them far better than most blogs. Single humans are wrong about a lot, multiple humans arguing are way more accurate.

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> Single humans are wrong about a lot, multiple humans arguing are way more accurate.

I think this is only true if the commentors are SME's & operating in good faith. We've all seen whole threads hijacked by erroneous groupthink, while the 1 or 2 SME's were buried.

The case where the hordes of commentors with casual knowledge downvote the one guy who knows enough to have some nuance because his opinion doesn't fit with their simple but wrong understanding seems far more common.

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