[Campaigns-l] Some Thoughts

[Chris Chiasson]

I disagree. Forum posts, even with moderation, encourage grandstanding
and platitudes because those sound cool/smart/funny and constitute an
easy way to collect moderation points. It is much harder (and better?)
to achieve the consensus on a wiki page. Of course, an individual
controversial opinion can be more valuable than a consensus opinion,
but my guess is that usually only happens if that individual is
well-informed on the topic at hand.

For a wiki with login requirements, I guess one could say that the
people are moderated while the "posts" aren't.

On 7/6/06, George Murray <george.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Angela,
>
> I am new to contributing to Wikis and am interested in participating in
> campaigns.wikia.com. I agree with the comment made about Wikis probably not
> having the best functionality for debate. Forums certainly do have wikis
> beat on that. However, forums come in a wide range of functions. For the
> campaigns wikia I would suggest a forum kind of like digg.com's comments
> section. Where fellow wiki contributors can rate a post on its value, and
> posts of high value can rise and eventually be added to a wikia page with
> the most valuable information skimmed from the forum discussion.
>
> For instance you could have a forum "thread" tied to the debate of global
> warming. Posts can have a thread heirarchy for organization. Poor posts can
> be voted down and out. A post rating history is kept to make sure no one is
> just rating down their opponents viewpoints. Wiki contributors cannot
> re-write each others posts, but they can re-organize posts to create a more
> distilled discussion. The highest level of talking points can be the wiki
> page.
>
> I am new to contributing to wikis so forgive me if my lingo is not on
> target, but I hope that I have gotten my point across. The merging of a
> flowing participatory forum functionality with the opening of wikis can
> distill topics and present the basics for visitors.
>
> Thanks,
> gmurray
>
>
> On 7/6/06, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/7/06, bruce boston <bboston at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I wonder if we couldn't use a set of forums that went along with the
> Wiki.
> >
> > We do have a wiki-based forum at
> > http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:The_Soapbox - the
> idea is
> > combine the advantages of a forum with those of a wiki. I'd be
> > interested to know what everyone thinks of it, especially those people
> > new to wikis. Is it much harder to use than the forums you're used to?
> >
> > Angela.
> >
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