o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o Mike & All,
Yes, it's good to have a list of precepts and pointers somewhere, but it needs to be understood that those are literally pointers to a larger social context from which they draw their only real validity. The idea that the X-site community is somehow exempt from the norms of the outside world and will henceforth proceed to rebuild from scratch is the very thing that led Wikipedia down the road to a bad rerun of the ''Lord of the Flies''. I don't think that this is due to the text-only medium, as I have never communicated with journal editors and even many conference referees, before the conference, in any other way. It has to do with a pervading air that the WP management put on, constantly inciting novices to BE BOLD !!! and persist in their ignorant rants, when they should have been encouraged to learn. Jon Awbrey Mike Johnson wrote: > > Jon, > > I think you make a very good point that there exist traditional avenues > for dispute resolution between scholars. > > The issue I see is that scholarly norms and instincts may occasionally > malfunction in a novel, text-only social context, so it'd be nice to > have a resolution policy to fall back on. > > I'm reminded of the this article exploring how frequently (text-only) emails > are misunderstood: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0515/p13s01-stct.html > > Mike Johnson o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o inquiry e-lab: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wikinfo: http://wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wp review: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=398 zendium: http://textop.org/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=19 o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
