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When a person or set of people dominate a forum, are you
Submitted by Jeff P. on July 2, 2007 - 11:39am.
discouraged from participating?
55% (16 votes)
indifferent?
31% (9 votes)
encouraged to participate?
14% (4 votes)
Total votes: 29
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domination?
What does it mean exactly? Dominate is a much different word than administrate or moderate. What is this poll pertaining to? Not a lot of people like to be "dominated" but I think a large number of people can respect rules and the fact that others are needed to maintain and administer them.
I had no idea...
I had no idea that the two of you are such absolutists... interesting.
Jeff
http://www.zmag.org/ipps.html
absolutist!
"Absolutist" as in black & white / either-or ways of thinking? That definitely isn't me.
(I assume that you don't mean "absolutist" in the political sense -- as in absolutism that is like totalitarianism!)
the a-word
No need to throw around the a-word, Jeff...surely you couldn't have gotten that impression from my post, which was more a nerdy joke that anything...? :)
haha
Ahh, internet communication. how different this would be if I had added a :) to the end of my post.
Jeff :)
http://www.zmag.org/ipps.html
Even worse when...
It gets even worse when people are willing to fling insults and lies, which I've had my fill of.
Then (for me, at least) it's even worse to be publicly pressured by moderators to not confront the insults and lies -- as though doing so is wrong.
Anyway, any of you who dream about cool-headed and fair discussions online that are also open to anyone and everyone are kidding yourselves. Some people are more disrespectual and inconsiderate online. That's just how it is. Yet, some (if not many) people have wild fantasies about the Internet -- partly because of marketing hype (from Microsoft, etc).
During a workshop at the Regional Social Forum a guy spent a few minutes basically telling everyone how the Internet (weblogs, wikis, etc) will bring democracy and equality to everyone everywhere. (If that's so, why are the top Yahoo searches usually about commercial crap and generally about entertainment or mainstream media stuff?)
the answer = space bias!
aka. the neglect of time... aka corporate vested interests structuring the development and uses of the Internet...aka Innisian medium theory...aka my MA thesis and all I have been thinking about for the past x number of months!
Biases
Lots of biases -- tendencies, but not absolutes.