On 29 August 2010 17:52, David Moran fordmadoxfraud@gmail.com wrote:
Well, right. That's kind of what I mean. These things happened to Citizendium because credentialism is the natural outcome of trying to create a system of valuing a certain class of contributors more than others.
I was amazed just how actively negative credentialism could be - Shirky posited it as merely putting a dead weight on the project, not actually driving it backwards. Did anyone actually predict it would result in CZ becoming a crank magnet?
If anyone wanted to advocate credentialism on Wikimedia projects, they'd first have to work out how to fix the pseudoscience problem on CZ.
- d.