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Could someone actually cite these people who are holding up Stack Overflow and Github as bastions of democratic process? Because I'm more concerned by some rand
by saraid216 14y ago
Could someone actually cite these people who are holding up Stack Overflow and Github as bastions of democratic process? Because I'm more concerned by some random schmuck building a site supposedly about argumentation getting himself twisted up over a straw man. If you're going to play this game, you need to do marketing for your competitors by citing them, too. You've got no ethos here.
- icebraining 14y agoraises hand It's far from perfect, but considering that 99% of online communities out there are run in an autocratic way, with a person or clique appointing the "police" which is mostly non-accountable to the users (like HN, for example), having systems of public participation like SO's elections and places for discussion of its governance (Meta) puts it actually quite high in the democratic ranking.
- maxerickson 14y agohttp://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/pycon-github/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/pycon-github/ (I explicitly do not mean to raise a discussion of the context. It's just that the article does exactly what you are asking about, saying "It’s yet another way that GitHub is moving beyond software, helping to democratize the development of other stuff, including everything from laws and other legal documents to cartoons and even Wired articles.")