Hi all, the article metioned below might be interesting to read.
regards, elpidio Subject: [Fwd: [discuss] Flaming and the design of social software] Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:23:46 -0500 From: Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: openhealth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I thought the veterans of this list would appreciate the article mentioned below.... Joseph -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [discuss] Flaming and the design of social software Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:18:34 -0600 From: michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Canadian Open Source Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: CanOpener To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found Clay Shirkey's "Group as User: Flamming and the design of social software" a welcome deep breath : http://shirky.com/writings/group_user.html "Flame wars are not surprising; they are one of the most reliable features of mailing list practice. If you assume a piece of software is for what it does, rather than what its designer's stated goals were, then mailing list software is, among other things, a tool for creating and sustaining heated argument. (This is true of other conversational software as well -- the WELL, usenet, Web BBSes, and so on.) This tension in outlook, between 'flame war as unexpected side-effect' and 'flame war as historical inevitability,' has two main causes. The first is that although the environment in which a mailing list runs is computers, the environment in which a flame war runs is people. You couldn't go through the code of the Mailman mailing list tool, say, and find the comment that reads "The next subroutine ensures that misunderstandings between users will be amplified, leading to name-calling and vitriol." Yet the software, when adopted, will frequently produce just that outcome. " -- Michael Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.canopener.ca/mailman/listinfo/discuss . ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
