Dennis Howlett commented on a recent post of mine, On Control, where I was musing over Big’s relationship to Control Failure, and arguing that we needed a Better But Not That Big approach. One of the things Dennis said was
“Big often means complex. So how do you propose to solve the complexity issues?”
That stayed [...]
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August 21st, 2006 · 10 Comments · Four pillars
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On gatekeepers and opensource
August 21st, 2006 · 10 Comments · Four pillars
Opensource communities have always had some form of moderation.
Sometimes they are called “the core“, sometimes they are referred to as “1000lb gorillas”, and sometimes they’re just called “moderators”. The term itself doesn’t matter, but the function represented by the term does matter.
Unless the term itself is wrong.
Like “gatekeeper”. [Yup, this was partially triggered by some [...]
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