a useful neologism - crowdstamping

[Dan Krimm]

I was also thinking about peer dynamics, not just adult authorities.  Who
were the leaders among students, and how did they manipulate opinion among
fellow students...

Even in institutions where the adults treat the students with respect (I
grew up in such a school system), the students often don't treat each other
with respect based on merit so much as respect based on various forms of
personal power (i.e., raw popularity and "cliques").  Manipulation of the
perception of collective opinion can be part of that power.

In the US, political dynamics are often driven by the saying "perception is
reality."  Manipulate perception, and you can create your own reality.
Those seeking to consolidate and entrench their own power often work very
hard to manipulate perception rather than to discover reality on its own
terms (which can often be difficult to do accurately), especially if
reality goes against their narrow agenda.

Dan

PS: Do we need to file these comments with the ATRT?  ;-)


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At 7:34 AM +0300 8/4/10, Alex Gakuru 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
>>