Unintended Consequences Of The Community Metaphor, Internet Websites Are Not Sovereign Nations � Duh !!! Options

[Jonny Cache]

This was the title of a discussion point that I tried to raise with Larry Sanger and the Citizendians back in the days when their neverending Constitutional Convention was just a toddler in short pants.

But the issue is a perennial one in this Brave Nøøb World of the Wikisphere, and it has flared up once again with the advent of a number of new-fanged lawgifts that those geeks in the Woolen Hearse known as Wikipedia have come abearing.

So I think the time has come to air a mix of old and new tunes on this old song and dance routine.

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[Moulton]

It will be interesting and/or tragic to see if WR falls prey to the lividity of the Lawgivers Disease, or if it ascends to a more enlightened and evolved model of self-regulation.

[Jonny Cache]

It will be interesting and/or tragic to see if WR falls prey to the lividity of the Lawgivers Disease, or if it ascends to a more enlightened and evolved model of self-regulation.

It's really quite simple.

Not everything is a business, but some people think everything should be run like a business.

Not everything is a community, but some people think that every population is a community.

Not everything is a family, but some people think that every organization is like their family.

Businesses, communities, and families are all capable of much good in their proper places, but each of these organizational concepts can make for an absolutely disastrous model when they are forced on organizations whose objectives they do not fit.

Jon Awbrey