A campaign collaboration wiki...

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by Athelwulf, Nov 6, 2006.

  1. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    Pete Ashdown's campaign site has a wiki where people can, apparently, help construct his campaign platform.

    I find this idea deliciously novel. This is something that I would love to see more politicians do.

    What do you SciForumers think about this?


    (I couldn't decide whether to put this in Politics or Free Thoughts. But I decided that, since I was focusing more on the idea of the wiki than on politics, it belonged here.)
     
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  3. Prince_James Plutarch (Mickey's Dog) Registered Senior Member

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    I do not trust anyone who could stand for anything.
     
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  5. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    Seems strange that other people would explain what he thinks, can't he do that himself? Or are other people telling him what to think?
     
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  7. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    I don't think it's like that. He is the candidate of an organized political party, and his platform is pretty much in line with that of the party. It's not totally random.

    He probably did explain it himself, to an extent. How else could the wiki have been started?
     
  8. baumgarten fuck the man Registered Senior Member

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    Wiki? Pfft. Real men use rcs in a group-writable directory.
     
  9. Roman Banned Banned

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    Welcome to how all functioning representative democracies ought to function.
     
  10. baumgarten fuck the man Registered Senior Member

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    It's more of a consensus, isn't it? Otherwise minority viewpoints would at least have a voice outside of the revision history.
     
  11. Roman Banned Banned

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    Minority viewpoints with large wads of cash (oil companies, zionists, the sierra club, big sugar) can exert as much influence as, if not more than, large constituencies that lack organization or cash.
     
  12. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    It's pretty nice that you can see his policies. His ideas on global poverty are decent in terms of eliminating global debt.
     
  13. baumgarten fuck the man Registered Senior Member

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    This is also true with a wiki. You're right, it is a democracy!
     

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