6 июн. 2014 г.

Social software: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Learning from experience is the worst possible way to learn something. Learning from experience is one up from remembering. That's not great. The best way to learn something is when someone else figures it out and tells you: "Don't go in that swamp. There are alligators in there."
  • Groups of people are aggregations of individuals or a cohesive group? Hopelessly committed to both.
  • Uncontrolled groups tend to defeat their goals via sex talks, identification and vilification of external enemies, religious veneration etc.
  • Constitutions are a necessary component of large, long-lived, heterogeneous groups.
  • You cannot completely separate technical and social issues.
  • Members are different than users.
  • The core group has rights that trump individual rights in some situations.
  • Social software should have the handles the user can invest in ("identity").
  • Social software should have some way in which good works get recognized.
  • Social software should have to have some cost to either join or participate, if not at the lowest level, then at higher levels.
  • Social software should have a way to spare the group from scale.