Opinion Wiki: Difference between revisions

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    '''Please see the [http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Opinion_Wiki&diff=0&oldid=1495 The Diff from the last version] or [http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Opinion_Wiki&oldid=1495 The original article] for a clear view on this before it got hit by horde(s) of [[trolls]].''
    ''Please see the [http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Opinion_Wiki&diff=0&oldid=1495 The Diff from the last version] or [http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Opinion_Wiki&oldid=1495 The original article] for a clear view on this before it got hit by horde(s) of [[trolls]].  Or see [[best cases]] for how the opinion wiki should enable the whole project.'' There is little consensus on this issue yes, and some terms are [[factionally defined]].  What is offered here is thus wholly a discussion and not policy at all:


    ==Background==
    ==Background==


    [[The Consumerium Exchange]], some complain, is a misleading name for this facility, which is about '''expressing opinions and support or the lack of for the expressed opinions'''.  It does not translate well at all - hence the new working title and design approach.  We now call it the '''opinion wiki'''.
    Some see opinions as most objectively expressed in a "market" form... but [[The Consumerium Exchange]], some complain, is a misleading name for this facility, which is about '''expressing opinions and support or the lack of for the expressed opinions'''.  It does not translate well at all - hence the new working title and design approach.  We now call it the '''opinion wiki'''.


    It will be a [[large public wiki]] with the special problems of that type of communication.  Including choosing a good name.
    It will be a [[large public wiki]] with the special problems of that type of communication.  Including choosing a good name.