Talk:User data: Difference between revisions

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"The individual presently carrying this [[Consumerium checker]] has the following [[individual buying criteria]]:
"The individual presently carrying this [[Consumerium checker]] has the following [[individual buying criteria]]:
*won't buy any product from the [[United States]] or from any company owned more than 30% by Americans, or whose stock is traded on a US [[stock market]]
*has someone they buy for who has a wheat allergy
*has someone they buy for who has a wheat allergy
*won't buy any fish that is not [[dolphin safe]] and doesn't care that there are problems with this [[standard label]]
*won't buy any fish that is not [[dolphin safe]] and doesn't care that there are problems with this [[standard label]]
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*trusts [[Pinks]] [[faction]] to decide what [[slavery]] actually is"
*trusts [[Pinks]] [[faction]] to decide what [[slavery]] actually is"


Such a profile might not all exist in a database, but some of these assertions may be scattered around the [[opinion wiki]] or talk pages in [[content wiki]].  In general we should not be shy about compiling all that is revealed by any end user in one place, if only so they know it's revealed, and can edit it if it's not right, or if they change their mind.  [[Large public wikis]] very often run into huge potential [[libel]] problems by letting [[sysop]]s or overly enthusiastic users talk about others' motives and make up adjectives to describe others' statements.  This sort of thing must be strictly forbidden by [[Consumerium Governance Organization]], it's actually worse even than [[outing]].
We actually need more [[user data]] than we can really act on, and we need to know at least something about context and intent, so that the [[Consumerium developers]] always know which buying criteria are in broad demand and need to be supported next - this is the only way to balance [[faction]] [[ideology]] to make this kind of decision.
 
Such a profile might not all exist in a database, but some of these assertions may be scattered around the [[opinion wiki]] or talk pages in [[content wiki]].  In general we should not be shy about compiling all that is revealed by any end user in one place, if only so they know it's revealed, and can edit it if it's not right, or if they change their mind.  [[Large public wiki]]s very often run into huge potential [[libel]] problems by letting [[sysop]]s or overly enthusiastic users talk about others' motives and make up adjectives to describe others' statements.  This sort of thing must be strictly forbidden by [[Consumerium Governance Organization]], it's actually worse even than [[outing]].
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