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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
That makes no sense. A general consensus from interested people can't make a consensus? That would certainly appear to be a ludicrous statement. You are implying that there exists some nebulous group of people not using twitter that are much, much smarter than the rest of us, and able to do so? That is definitely ludicrous.
So what, the only people that can do it are old white American luddites that write each other notes in pen and ink delivered by peasants on bicycles or something along those lines?
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It's impossible for anyone to help build a consensus about something they do not know exists. The problem with twitter and the internet in general is that it tends toward fragmentation and multiple non-intersecting communities rather than a single whole.
Without some form of filtering mechanism it's too easy for great works to get lost in the background noise. No one has the time to search the internet for every single novel that aspiring authors have posted - let alone read them all - and because the perfect book may be posted on a single web page with no inbound links it may be effectively unfindable.
The current system is by no means perfect, but there does need to be some winnowing and filtration system in effect or even more great works will be lost in the ocean of background noise than are now.