[WikiEN-l] "brittle"

[Geoff Burling]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Jack Lynch wrote:

> I personally would like to see more attention to rewarding good
> behaviour and less to punishing bad. I think that would help alot.
> Maybe if adminship was determined my a long and complementary process,
> rather than an open vote (where you get to see the names of those who
> oppose you), some of the bad blood would reduce. I can say from my
> studies in behavioural psychology and job coaching that the wikipedia
> has '''far''' too much emphasis on scolding and potential punishment
> processes, and not nearly enough on compliments. The ratio of
> compliment to criticism which has been shown most effective in
> modifying the bahaviour of others is 5 to one. Thats five compliments
> for every critisism, something rather far off from where the wiki is
> now.
>
I'd be very surprised if I'm the only one here who has noticed
JCarriker's proposal, [[User:JCarriker/Esperanza]] -- although he
doubtlessly intends to apply his idea to more than only "brittle"
contributors.

Geoff