People who aren’t me have said some stuff I want to share here…
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Tingilinde claims to quote a real-life right-wing Republican think-tanker:
“The religious right? We are lucky that we can control them so easily. They are like cattle. You can keep them in line with little effort and divert their attention from their own situation. In the end they are harvested and the supply is steady.
hamburger — mmmm — we love hamburger”
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Adina Levin, from SXSW, talks about nurturing online social trust:
“At the panel facilitated by Molly Steenson on How to Grow Online Community, Craig Newmark of Craig’s list and Matt Haughey of Metafilter both talked about trust as a social issue. Craig talked about the Craig’s list assumption that people are generally good, and about the processes they use when people stop being good, from unintentional misbehavior to criminal fraud and spam….
Both Craig and Matt noted that when a poster misbehaves, the first step is to speak with that person directly; reasoning solves the problem about half of the time…I can’t help thinking that the social-first approach to online community is the right primary approach.”
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And tonight at dinner, Amity remarked:
“When somebody defends a new theory using the argument, ‘Scientists don’t like it just because it’s new,’ that new theory is almost surely a bad theory.”