I was wondering about this recently. It feels like there are much less people willing to engage in good faith today as opposed to 10 or 20 years ago on the Internet.
Is this just a bias on my part, or has this been the experience of other people too? Is it just more people on the net, or really less people willing to talk honestly?
It is a bias probably of the groups you were in. I know people who would go on the internet to pick fights. Good faith is a good start. If the fight starts with know 'talking points' fed to them by someone else that they just googled up you usually know it is not worth messing with.
The honesty bit is 'gone' more I think. Because of things like 'lets clean up the comment sections', 'lets clean up the videos of problematic things'. So people are self filtering because they fear being tagged and brigaded because of something they do not see as wrong. This happens because the people with real money to spend showed up to advertise. The real customers have some sway.
This sounds like a good start point to evaluate politicians. Even before "ideology". May be add their track record. But avoid looking for perfect people(purity tests) because no one will pass that and you end up with the worst of all. The ones that no longer care about anything.
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What I ask myself is:
1. Are they competent?
2. Are they acting in good faith?
These can then be further subdivided into things to check.
Is this just a bias on my part, or has this been the experience of other people too? Is it just more people on the net, or really less people willing to talk honestly?
It is a bias probably of the groups you were in. I know people who would go on the internet to pick fights. Good faith is a good start. If the fight starts with know 'talking points' fed to them by someone else that they just googled up you usually know it is not worth messing with.
The honesty bit is 'gone' more I think. Because of things like 'lets clean up the comment sections', 'lets clean up the videos of problematic things'. So people are self filtering because they fear being tagged and brigaded because of something they do not see as wrong. This happens because the people with real money to spend showed up to advertise. The real customers have some sway.
This sounds like a good start point to evaluate politicians. Even before "ideology". May be add their track record. But avoid looking for perfect people(purity tests) because no one will pass that and you end up with the worst of all. The ones that no longer care about anything.