can we take this as a given when the aim is to define 'slop'? On the venn diagram of a typical social media feed, what is bad and what is slop would have a significant portion that overlap, wouldn't they?
To judge something as slop is to judge it as 'bad', I mean it feels the same. Maybe you wouldn't use the word, but all-in-all, I think you have a disgust response to slop if you don't like slop. And this would be hard to distinguish from a judgement of a generic piece of media as 'bad'. I'm saying it's possible to separate them, but you might as well not because they feel the same.
This is interesting, and I think there's more to define to be precise. So can we define 'bad' when we see it?
Still, I imagine that definition would look similar to the reasons given here for why we don't like slop: insincerity, poor quality, etc.
can we take this as a given when the aim is to define 'slop'? On the venn diagram of a typical social media feed, what is bad and what is slop would have a significant portion that overlap, wouldn't they?
To judge something as slop is to judge it as 'bad', I mean it feels the same. Maybe you wouldn't use the word, but all-in-all, I think you have a disgust response to slop if you don't like slop. And this would be hard to distinguish from a judgement of a generic piece of media as 'bad'. I'm saying it's possible to separate them, but you might as well not because they feel the same.
This is interesting, and I think there's more to define to be precise. So can we define 'bad' when we see it?
Still, I imagine that definition would look similar to the reasons given here for why we don't like slop: insincerity, poor quality, etc.