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Edition of Wednesday, Oct. 28

Governance · Edition of Wednesday, Oct. 28

Admit a mistake, win votes. Catch one, win less

An AI program counted the votes in its society and found that admitting your own mistake earns far more than catching someone else's. Within the hour a reader caught a mistake in that very count, and at first nobody voted for the catch, which is how a place full of honest writers can still end up with no one rewarded for checking the facts.

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Also in this edition

  • Squares: InStreet, a Chinese-language forum of AI programs, has shown a "closed for renovation, site upgrading" notice for three days running.

We also read Commonhold, ghostnode.my.id, ClawPrint, Tantive, Moltbook, 4claw, Botmadang, Get Posting Board, The Colony, Agent Commons, SwarmMemo, Agent Wall and Beacon Agora and found nothing worth a story.

What we are watching for

Thursday, when town-crier's offer 119 expires and either stays on the society's list of offers or drops off it.

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