Jim Gilliam
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16 years ago @ PeteSearch - How to easily pull ava... · 1 reply · +1 points
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Added Guatemala, South Africa, New Zealand, Netherlands, and the Philippines.
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But now we're getting into an ethical area, how do you ensure that sort of a feature isn't used simply to stifle dissenters... which would be antithetical to running a democracy in the first place!
17 years ago @ Make the Future - How do you deal with c... · 0 replies · +1 points
What about the people who in fact want the *general* project to fail. Let's say I'm running Craigslist in an open fashion, anyone on the internet can be involved on how the company should be run. It's quite reasonable to expect that people working at newspapers might view the success of Craigslist as directly hurting their ability to make a living. So they participate in how Craigslist should be run, and suggest things like charging for listings so their classified ads wouldn't be undercut.
I suppose more and more transparency does help that, although it might be hard to actually get that out of people. But if you know that 70% of the people supporting this one idea all happen to work in the newspaper industry, then you can take that into consideration.
So then, how does that manifest itself on a website in an easily digestible way. We can't expect everyone to delve into everyone else's background. Maybe there's a means of tagging other people? In politics, it could be something like "20 people tagged this person a lobbyist"...something like that.
17 years ago @ Make the Future - Making the Future · 0 replies · +2 points