Talk:Opinion Wiki: Difference between revisions

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A better name for this is [[edits, votes and bets]]. Since this is all about the relationship between those things. Juxo position: betting is bad, voting is not much better, editing can be free-form like Wikipedia and managed by the same informal methods - anything that needs formal process goes to [[Content Wiki]]. [[Trolls]] argue that the Content Wiki will be about consensus so the [[Opinion Wiki]] or the troll proposed [[The Consumerium Exchange]] must be about controversy and create contrasts that let people make the choices that they count on Consumerium to help them make. So this implies a different kind of formality.

A better name for this is [[edits, votes and bets]]. Since this is all about the relationship between those things.

:It's actually about EXPERIMENTING to let SEVERAL ways of relating those thigns compete. Each [[faction]] might have its own way of doing it, and the least controversial faction might get to edit the [[Signal Wiki]]/[[Content Wiki]]. Obviously we already have factions forming:

Juxo position: betting is bad, voting is not much better, editing can be free-form like Wikipedia and managed by the same informal methods - anything that needs formal process goes to [[Content Wiki]]. [[Trolls]] argue that the Content Wiki will be about consensus so the [[Opinion Wiki]] or the troll proposed [[The Consumerium Exchange]] must be about controversy and create contrasts that let people make the choices that they count on Consumerium to help them make. So this implies a different kind of formality.

:Why not consider these two factions, and see if we can figure out how they would dance to make the long term [[Research Wiki]] work? We seem to be doing fine at this [[troll-friendly]] dance so far, and obviously other [[large public wiki]]s could learn from our approach. Even when counter-trolls came in and tried to satirize the early trolls, they were easily responded to and their comments were absorbed, despite the fact that they were partially [[vandalism]]. But when people from a [[sysop power structure]] from another [[large public wiki]] came in to excuse their abominable [[sysop vandalism]], they were [[driven off by trolls]]. So far, this is basically the right way: probably THE SAME PEOPLE were better treated when they came in as trolls making fun than when they came in as sysops claiming authority. This is a lesson to them, and maybe to everybody.