CZ Talk:Personnel

Future thought

I think that while we should value hard working editors for the time being (b/c Citizendium is so small) & that we should consider/respect them, I think that Citizendium should consider merits as well as edit counts in forming this panel later on.

I've seen so many forums degenerate with people posting the most amount of garbage holding some sort of influence - these forums give bonus for posting more & give higher rankings, so some people try to make as many posts as possible.

And in discussions on topics such as global warming & economy, these same ppl may argue against someone else & "win" no matter how right that other person is just b/c they turn the discussion into a bunch of "no"s and "yes"s that cancel/neutralize each other & at the end the people side with the ones with the most edits. The main cause of such phenomenon is that those people who do in fact edit/post for the sake of editing & posting are arrogant & refuse to make the intellectual leap to understand & realize the other person's points - no matter how right that other person is. (Chunbum Park 10:55, 22 March 2008 (CDT))

"I think that Citizendium should consider merits as well as edit counts in forming this panel later on." -- Which panel are you referring to? There are a number of groups, panels, etc. mentioned on the primary page. If you're referring to the "Executive Committee", we're certainly not having any discussions such as you hypothesize, nor is that what it was set up to do. Hayford Peirce 11:41, 22 March 2008 (CDT)

I was referring to the Executive Committee. I'm not talking about the discussions that the Executive Committee are having. This mode of selection based on edit counts can serve as a framework to foster such an environment - in the same way that the bonuses of such forums weren't brought about under such intents but they indirectly bring about people who edit for the sake of editing & begin to view CZ as an RPG (as in Wikipedia) - in the larger picture. Even then, there doesn't need to be a specific instance of abuse to support my assertion. I don't think that my point that soon or later the Executive Committee should consider merits as well as the edit counts in selecting its members is anything bad or unachievable. (Chunbum Park 17:44, 22 March 2008 (CDT))

I like the fact that CZ users generally don't broadcast their number of edits on their userpage. On Wikipedia it seems to be some sort of status symbol. (Not sure if this was even related) Denis Cavanagh 18:04, 22 March 2008 (CDT)