"hacking the social system"

[Nathan Olberding]

Since no one's weighing in yet, I'll say that this doesn't sound like
a bad start of an idea.

On 4/28/05, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:
> My favorite developer :-) posted this:
> 
> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_aseigo_archive.html
> 
> <<
> when a software developer wants a program to do something, they usually
> scratch that itch and do something about it. so why is it that when the
> users have a problem with the social scene, they don't try and scratch
> their itch? why don't they try and hack the social system?
> 
> i bet if these users put their heads together they could create some
> (social) system that would coax and encourage developers in the
> direction they'd like. and no, bitching on the internet doesn't count as
> a social system.
> 
> so all you disgruntled users: scratch your itch. come up with some sort
> of system that works for you and invite the developers to it. make it
> inviting. make it worth our while and your while. you're the only ones
> who know what you want. so hack the system to get it.
>  >>
> 
> Classic Skinnerian (behaviorist) Psychology
> 
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/32/S0453250.html
> 
> tells us what to do to hack the social system.  We need to change the
> "contingencies of reinforcement".  If you have no idea what this is,
> please use Google (> 3K hits).
> 
> Basically, we need to find ways for rewarding developers for doing what
> we want.  For the issue of conforming to the design guidelines, we need
> to award their applications certification that they conform to the KDE
> UI guidelines.  For usability in general, we need to praise applications
> that have good usability.
> 
> Now, I don't know exactly how to do this, but I am just opening the
> subject for everyone to kick around -- that is something that engineer
> types do.
> 
> It would appear to me that for the certification that we would need a
> free standing committee to make the decisions by first discussion and
> then a vote.  Perhaps we should have Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and
> Rhodium certification levels corresponding to the percentage of yes
> votes.  And somewhere on the Wiki where we post this information.  Note
> that we would NOT tell anyone what to do, but when they did it the way
> the we considered correct, we would praise them.
> 
> We could also offer help by either reports or patches.
> 
> --
> JRT
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