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 Doing a blocklist with unverified any one person contributing who goes rogue and lumps personal dislike with hate is a folly.

Pooling biased subjective takes doesnt necessarily result an intersubjective pool of data from which matreially more accurate or better results flow. 

If the substituent ingredients for something includes dogshit, you still get dogshit results. 

See: Cochrane's Mask study. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/27/dont-believe-those-who-claim-science-proves-masks-dont-work