[WikiEN-l] Exit Interview -- Jon Awbrey

Mon Jun 19 04:20:59 UTC 2006

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post 4.

incorporating responses to:

SB = Sean Barrett

SB: Perhaps we can get straight to the point:

SB: What do you hope to accomplish by repeating
the standard Mk.1 Disgruntled User Rant, modified
only by the Gratuitous Use of Fatuous Initialisms (GUFI)?

the purpose of an exit interview, as some organizations make use of them,
is is to acquire from departing members an order of feedback information
that for all sorts of humanly understandable reasons members are usually
reluctant to share, or even proscribed from sharing, while still members
of the group.  a bit more directness, a bit more risk-taking, a lot less
dancing around the bush, a lot less mincing of words, and in the case of
WP, we can all drop that constant mental strain of trying to assume good
faith of folk who behave like brown shirts, or brown sock-puppets in the
current fashion.

the frank exchange of views so far allows me to extend my classification:

1.  accurate reporters (AR's)
2.  responsible scholars (RS's)
3.  disgrunted users (DU's)
4.  infantile vandals (IV's)
5.  expert disrupters (ED's)

in order to learn from the welter of disressing phenomena
that we are bound to encounter in any complex environment,
and especially any system that involves large masses of
interacting human beings, it helps to stand back a bit
from the fray and try to guess what sorts of dynamics
are driving the developments in question.  lately,
i have found myself spending a lot more time
standing aback and a lot less time writing
articles, and so i might as well share
a few of my more persistent findings,
plus a few more speculative guesses
as to what the hell may be going on.

to be continued ...

jon awbrey

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