"Social control" can also be termed "mob rule". That term has previously been used to describe Wikipedia by outside sources.
Noble Story
Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote: On May 26, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Todd Allen wrote:
Our policies are almost, but not entirely incidental to the actual work of improving the encyclopedia - they're certainly a second line of defense, consulted when the first line of defense - social control - fails.
In other words, what we need is not better policy, but rather better users who rely on thought and judgment that is informed by principles, not on rigid policy.
-Phil
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