The forum is a generally bad place for pooling information in an easily retrievable way that gives equal emphasis to all of it, which is what we need for such information to be useful.
Sorry for being brief in my last answer. You made good reasonable points which I don’t have much to add on.
I stick to my last answer that forum is a good place for that, because it is very hard and often close to impossible to create new services when functionality greatly overlaps with existing service. Think about Google+ which tried to compete with Facebook and what happened. People use established service and forget to use similar one.
Forum is not perfect for it—yes, but for practical reasons I see it as the way to do epistemic standards and other things described in your comment. Forum is an established, central place for everything public like this.
The forum is a generally bad place for pooling information in an easily retrievable way that gives equal emphasis to all of it, which is what we need for such information to be useful.
Sorry for being brief in my last answer. You made good reasonable points which I don’t have much to add on.
I stick to my last answer that forum is a good place for that, because it is very hard and often close to impossible to create new services when functionality greatly overlaps with existing service. Think about Google+ which tried to compete with Facebook and what happened.
People use established service and forget to use similar one.
Forum is not perfect for it—yes, but for practical reasons I see it as the way to do epistemic standards and other things described in your comment. Forum is an established, central place for everything public like this.