On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
> An experiment should be well defined, should have an owner > (preferably), should have success/failure criteria, and should have an > end date. > > As long as we have these things, I don't see any harm in experimenting > to see what works. > + the knowledge on how to make undecided people participating to the exp. If not you are simply forgetting them. > > Communities (and other complex systems) are not like code. You cannot > write unit tests. You can't even debug them that well. Experimentation > is an important tool. Otherwise you'd never be able to make changes, > because nothing is certain or known beforehand. > I know. (Why people still forget I am not a computer science guy ;) But we can have some well defined milestones, figures we want to confirm and prepared poll on each. Ie to assert that a step has been achieved. Community building is not an exact science, but it is something that could be bordered imo. - benoit PS: note that I do think we are thinking quite the same on that. I am not implying anything else.
