i think we should bring back gatekeeping simply because social media has proved that too many people believe themselves to be experts just because they talk about a thing a lot

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i think we should bring back gatekeeping simply because social media has proved that too many people believe themselves to be experts just because they talk about a thing a lot
but who gatekeeps the gatekeepers? or something.
I've thought about this, because people without official credentials can still be legitimately expert on topics without anything necessarily to show for it in terms of academic or job distinction, but...how do you tell the legit people from the frauds? asking a few questions will generally be enough but that's not an obvious method, and anyway if you try to step on a fraud they do their fraud louder ~Chara