Nobody sets out to write a terrible novel, open a crappy restaurant or create a horrible movie, and people mostly succeed in not being abysmal.
Not actually true. The abysmal stuff is filtered out for you by gatekeepers in publishing distribution, financing and so forth. If you want an example of how things look without gatekeepers, consider an unfiltered app store (like Android's a year or two back) filled with endless imitations and one-note ideas (Justin Bieber sliding tile puzzle! Miley Cyrus sliding tile puzzzle! Paul Graham sliding ti...you get the idea).
The approach of Facebook and G+ is that if you don't like something, ignore it and it will go away. This doesn't really work that well (see the other popular post about FB on today's front page, and the diminishing quality of Google News as more sources are added to it).
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Nobody sets out to write a terrible novel, open a crappy restaurant or create a horrible movie, and people mostly succeed in not being abysmal.
Not actually true. The abysmal stuff is filtered out for you by gatekeepers in publishing distribution, financing and so forth. If you want an example of how things look without gatekeepers, consider an unfiltered app store (like Android's a year or two back) filled with endless imitations and one-note ideas (Justin Bieber sliding tile puzzle! Miley Cyrus sliding tile puzzzle! Paul Graham sliding ti...you get the idea).
The approach of Facebook and G+ is that if you don't like something, ignore it and it will go away. This doesn't really work that well (see the other popular post about FB on today's front page, and the diminishing quality of Google News as more sources are added to it).