Comments on: Trusting a community to get it right http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/ I learn something new every day Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Brian Offenberger http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Brian Offenberger Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:39:11 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/#comment-448 Your point is quite valid and those involved in social networking and its importance to online marketing most probably would agree. Your point is quite valid and those involved in social networking and its importance to online marketing most probably would agree.

]]> By: Miles Libbey http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Miles Libbey Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:39:39 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/#comment-439 You should definitely read the Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. There are numberous similar stories. My favorite so far: A school with 2 very narrow staircases saw extremely slow traffic up/down them betweeen classes. A professor suggested to 1 class that they always use 1 staircase to go up, and the other down. Soon everyone started doing the same -- dramatically smoothing and thus speeding the traffic fflow. You should definitely read the Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. There are numberous similar stories. My favorite so far: A school with 2 very narrow staircases saw extremely slow traffic up/down them betweeen classes. A professor suggested to 1 class that they always use 1 staircase to go up, and the other down. Soon everyone started doing the same — dramatically smoothing and thus speeding the traffic fflow.

]]> By: Levin Fritz http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-433 Levin Fritz Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:34:12 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/#comment-433 Looks like WordPress ate the tags in my previous post. Here are the tags without angle brackets: meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="UTF-8" / should be meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" / Looks like WordPress ate the tags in my previous post. Here are the tags without angle brackets:
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]]> By: scottgatz http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-431 scottgatz Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:14:51 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/#comment-431 Steve, of course I know that's the reason ( I travel all the time). But the interesting thing is that the same reason should exist on SWA as well. The people at the front of B line are just the same as the AW folks. So why don't they push and shove? I wonder if AW just asked people to line up. UA has "boarding sections", I wonder if they asked people to lineup, would the same behaviour happen? Steve, of course I know that’s the reason ( I travel all the time). But the interesting thing is that the same reason should exist on SWA as well. The people at the front of B line are just the same as the AW folks. So why don’t they push and shove? I wonder if AW just asked people to line up. UA has “boarding sections”, I wonder if they asked people to lineup, would the same behaviour happen?

]]> By: Steve http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-430 Steve Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:45:19 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/#comment-430 "...so they could get to their seat earlier (even though they know they are guaranteed to sit in the same seat no matter how quickly they board)" You really can't figure out why most people want to get on the plane ahead of others? Either you don't fly much, or maybe you're pretending not to understand because that makes for a better segue into your Web-community ideas. Anyway, the reason for the jockeying for position is the limited storage space for carry-on luggage. No one wants to get on a plane after most people have boarded, only to find that there's no overhead storage space left and your carry-on luggage will have to be checked in (or, at best, stowed above seat no. 195 at the end of the plane, which means you'll have to wait until everyone gets off so that you can get back there to retrieve it). “…so they could get to their seat earlier (even though they know they are guaranteed to sit in the same seat no matter how quickly they board)”

You really can’t figure out why most people want to get on the plane ahead of others? Either you don’t fly much, or maybe you’re pretending not to understand because that makes for a better segue into your Web-community ideas.

Anyway, the reason for the jockeying for position is the limited storage space for carry-on luggage. No one wants to get on a plane after most people have boarded, only to find that there’s no overhead storage space left and your carry-on luggage will have to be checked in (or, at best, stowed above seat no. 195 at the end of the plane, which means you’ll have to wait until everyone gets off so that you can get back there to retrieve it).

]]> By: Levin Fritz http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Levin Fritz Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:53:06 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/#comment-428 Is see the strange characters, too. I think the problem is the following tag in the html header: That should really be: Because of this, the browser can't tell the charset and has to resort to guessing ... if it guesses wrongly, you end up with funny accented characters. Is see the strange characters, too. I think the problem is the following tag in the html header:

That should really be:

Because of this, the browser can’t tell the charset and has to resort to guessing … if it guesses wrongly, you end up with funny accented characters.

]]> By: wbwither http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-427 wbwither Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:37:00 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/#comment-427 I too am getting the "strange characters." I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.1. Using the View menu to change Character Encoding to UTF-8 fixes the problem. It seems your site isn't correctly telling Firefox to use UTF-8. This may have something to do with your blog invoking an XML DTD but not using the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_9" rel="nofollow">proper XML encoding declaration</a>, but I'm not sure. I too am getting the “strange characters.” I’m using Firefox 1.5.0.1. Using the View menu to change Character Encoding to UTF-8 fixes the problem. It seems your site isn’t correctly telling Firefox to use UTF-8. This may have something to do with your blog invoking an XML DTD but not using the proper XML encoding declaration, but I’m not sure.

]]> By: Ravi Dronamraju http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-423 Ravi Dronamraju Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:07:11 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/#comment-423 Nice post, scott! There are some strange characters appearing in your post. I wonder if i am the only one who sees them. anyway, I think one of the reasons you can't cut in front of a Southwest line is because you'd get your butt kicked. On the other hand, on american or other airlines, most people are curteous enough to let someone else come in front of them and not push them out of the way. Nice post, scott!
There are some strange characters appearing in your post. I wonder if i am the only one who sees them.
anyway, I think one of the reasons you can’t cut in front of a Southwest line is because you’d get your butt kicked. On the other hand, on american or other airlines, most people are curteous enough to let someone else come in front of them and not push them out of the way.

]]> By: Jeremy Zawodny's blog http://www.scottgatz.com/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Jeremy Zawodny's blog Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:00:58 +0000 http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2006/02/09/trusting-a-community-to-get-it-right/#comment-422 <strong>Trust People and They'll Surprise You...</strong> Amazing things happen when you give people a bit of trust and authority to do things according to their own judgment. I was reminded of this a few weeks ago when I stumbled upon a Fast Company article called Engines of Democracy. It describes a revolut... Trust People and They’ll Surprise You…

Amazing things happen when you give people a bit of trust and authority to do things according to their own judgment. I was reminded of this a few weeks ago when I stumbled upon a Fast Company article called Engines of Democracy. It describes a revolut…

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