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> As a moderator working on a volunteer basis, it can also be hard to muster the willpower to respond to a report in a timely manner. When I see the word "volu
by jancsika 8y ago
> As a moderator working on a volunteer basis, it can also be hard to muster the willpower to respond to a report in a timely manner.
When I see the word "volunteer" in a response to a sensible critique of FLOSS software, I rankly speculate that a deep design flaw has manifested itself as a social problem.
It appears I am right in this case.
Are there known cases where I would be wrong?
- scrollaway 8y agoWikipedia? I agree with you in general though. I think Wikipedia would be the exception.
- bumholio 8y agoWikipedia quickly gets political. Even in technical articles, there is an incentive to impose one's own perspective for his field as the "authoritative" version. An important part of contributors, it turns out, are academics working in the field that more often than not are deeply vested in their version. This is a great system for an encyclopedia that must find the best approximation of the truth, but I wouldn't call it "incentive free". Similar incentives in the social world (pushing out people that don't conform to the moderator's world view) could be disastrous.
- jancsika 8y agoDo you have a specific example? For example, I don't think they used the term "volunteer" in their funding drives. Maybe that's for obvious reasons, but I also don't remember seeing "volunteer" when reading about their approaches to page vandalism, editors abusing power, etc.