a useful neologism - crowdstamping

[Alex Gakuru]

In addition to legitimizing 'dictatorship' since misrepresents the
public as 'participated', does the approach not form the foundation to
the Internet's version of:

http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue32/Edney31.htm (part I) and
http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue32/Edney32.htm (part II) ?

regards,


On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan, true that!
>
> At leadership consultations in my high school ("A-levels") days, it
> was quite upsetting for us the students to be told "before I tell you
> what I have decided, do you have anything to say?" by the school
> leadership. One found no point in saying anything since everything had
> been decided, anyway.
>
> Thank David,
>
> Alex
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Dan Krimm <dan at musicunbound.com> wrote:
>> Brilliant.  I'm definitely going to steal that.  Sort of like the
>> "refudiation" of crowdsourcing.
>>
>> Systematically-manipulated (or systematically "refudiated") public opinion
>> polls can also be (and often are) used for crowdstamping, by the way.  It's
>> not just a feature of open-comment processes, but can be applied as a
>> variant where public opinion is manufactured artificially.  This is a
>> technique that goes all the way back to high school.
>>
>> "Everyone" says so!  The People have spoken!  :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> At 11:53 AM +0800 8/4/10, David Cake wrote:
>>>       A useful neologism for ICANN processes (via Lillian Edwards
>>>twitter feed)
>>>Crowdstamping - going through the motions in asking the public about
>>>a policy but rubberstamping it anyway.
>>>       (term apparently coined by Uk web developer Stef Lewandowski
>>>in reponse to UK government consultation that, in response to 9,500
>>>public submissions,resulted in every responding government dept
>>>uniformly saying they should keep doing exactly what they were doing)
>>>       Regards
>>>               David
>>
>