[Campaigns-l] Some Thoughts

[George Murray]

Grandstanding and platitudes may be commonplace on forums such as digg, and
slashdot, but I think that mostly has to do with the type of people who
contribute. A more conventional forum for wiki users would probably not only
work better for communication, but be easier to use. Perhaps I'm just new
the wikis though.

And how much moderation is user registration? It's really not hard to
register a wiki account and then post away. The real moderation should be at
the post level.

-gm

On 7/6/06, Chris Chiasson <chris at chiasson.name> wrote:
>
> 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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