At the moment, I'm thinking about the demise, in one short week's time, of a famous online source of information about photography that has been around since the late '90s. About 15 years ago, it was one of the sites I would browse every morning as I put off getting started at work while nursing a cup or two of Folgers. Yes, Folgers was the coffee our group could all agree upon. The wisdom of crowds. Anyway, I really valued the standardized testing and reasonably unbiased reporting featured on this site; on the other hand, I totally despised the discussion forums from the get go. A real cesspool of mansplaining jackassery! Alas! In some sense, the site exemplified both poles of collective intelligence.
