The big question with a new site that talks about "enabling people to send short, civil, anonymous notes to anyone and everyone can read the notes" is around anonymity.
How do you possibly keep the site clean and not have this be just a trash pit?
Well, it looks like Fastnote has found the answer. You make it easy for anyone to report offensive or inappropriate content and then you make it easy for users to moderate and vote on whether or note the content gets deleted.
Turns out that this is working well. People are writing thoughtful notes on Fastnote and the content is staying clean.
Here's some links to good notes on Fastnote - read what others have said and then write your own notes, too.
www.fastnote.com/president-barack-obama
www.fastnote.com/politicians-all-parties
www.fastnote.com/peggy-noonan
www.fastnote.com/civilination
You can tell the team at Fastnote what you think at www.fastnote.com/fastnote-com
Showing posts with label civil dialogue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil dialogue. Show all posts
Monday, October 25, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Understanding before disagreeing
President Obama used a great phrase today in introducing Elena Kagan as his Supreme Court nominee - "understanding before disagreeing".
It's a great approach - listen, gather facts, understand the arguments, and then and only then make up your mind.
Certainly hope this comment truly reflects her approach. Now we just have to hope that the nomination review and confirmation processes are conducted in a civil and thoughtful fashion and not in the court of "outraged sound bites".
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Respectful disagreement is a good thing
It strikes me that so much of our so called political dialogue in this country has degenerated to new lows. It seems like the rules changed when I wasn't looking. "If I disagree with your position, then my first response should be to demonize you" is the new rule.
What happened to respectful disagreement? As in, "I listened carefully to your points, I thought about them, and I happen to disagree - but - I still respect you as an individual and I look forward to debating with you again because I might actually learn something from someone as smart as you clearly are."
Where can you go to have that kind of discussion now?
What happened to respectful disagreement? As in, "I listened carefully to your points, I thought about them, and I happen to disagree - but - I still respect you as an individual and I look forward to debating with you again because I might actually learn something from someone as smart as you clearly are."
Where can you go to have that kind of discussion now?
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