it certainly is a problem. and yet failure to provide direction seems
to cause even more problems.
providing leadership is different from providing direction. it includes
things like unsolicited positive vision and innovation, and willingness toward
constructive criticism and guidance when solicited. it does not include
crapping all over ideas that merely sound dangerous, where the dangers are
latent, and where the harm if any would be that time is wasted.
providing direction is more like preventing consenting adults from doing stuff
that you would find distasteful, and it's paternalism or nannyism, and no good
has come of it in the internet field.
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