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I'm sorry, but this is not the way to enforce "good cops". You need to focus more on local surroundings that represent smaller communities, where reputation and
by rubatuga 5y ago
I'm sorry, but this is not the way to enforce "good cops". You need to focus more on local surroundings that represent smaller communities, where reputation and social interactions matter. The internet is an amplification in both good and bad ways, but a large centralized way to enforce "good cops" is ripe for disaster. We need to develop tools to help stabilize small-scale communities, not cause schisms. In turn, these tools can be considered a form of public infrastructure. Maybe open-source the code so that local communities could run such a website?
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- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agoYep, a trendy restaurant in my city hired voice actors to read some of their most ridiculous bad Yelp reviews, and played the recording on loop in the bathrooms.
- netizen-936824 5y agoWow, that sounds obnoxious
- dheera 5y agoMost local communities aren't going to do that.
- danielheath 5y agoSaying that in reply to “We need to develop tools to help stabilize small-scale communities” reads to me like you are furiously agreeing with the underlying principle, while ignoring the substance of the argument. Most local communities are not going to do that for reasons largely due to macro policies (which have positive effects too; eg labor mobility is harmful to local communities but well worth the cost).
- hanniabu 5y agoCool, you gonna do that? What you're describing is networking and that's not going to fight that decades of built nepotism and brotherhoods.
- ipaddr 5y agoMake them small and less powerful to blunt any effect and create schisms? Have a small copy run locally and use the power of gossip to shame without creating schisms? Not sure that's going to work any better than what we don't have now.
- cwkoss 5y agoWell, clearly the vast majority of current initiatives to enforce "good cops" aren't working, so I hope a thousand people try a thousand other methods to increase police accountability. Your open source cop tracker for local communities idea sounds cool. Go build it.