on 10/14/07
6:57 PM, William Pietri at william(a)scissor.com wrote:
....
Don't get me wrong; I'm a big advocate of treating any vaguely serious
contributor with respect. But in trying to build open communities on the
Internet, you have to be prepared for people who are looking to vent,
who come with an agenda, or who are just so lacking in clue that they
are unable to make any useful contribution. If you don't give them an
outlet, they'll just cram their opinions into any input field or email
inbox they can find, disrupting normal business. And heck, some of them
will get a clue eventually, so it's best to involve them in ways that
help with that.
William,
" But in trying to build open communities on the
Internet, you have to be prepared for people who are
looking to vent,
who come with an agenda, or who are just so lacking in clue that they
are unable to make any useful contribution. If you don't give them an
outlet, they'll just cram their opinions into any input field or email
inbox they can find, disrupting normal business. "
Sounds just like meetings at my last brick and mortar job. Oh, that I
wish these folks were confined to cyberspace--I could then just get a
job in the real world and never come in contact with them.
KP
My "off-line intuitions"?
The quality of a culture is greatly reflected in the quality of its language
- "on-line" or off.
Marc
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