Yeah, I’m confused about this. Seems like some amount of “collapsing social uncertainty” is very good for healthy community dynamics, and too much (like having a live ranking of where you stand) would be wildly bad. I don’t think I currently have a precise way of cutting these things. My current best guess is that the more you push to make the work descriptive, the better, and the more it becomes normative and “shape up!”-oriented, the worse, but it’s hard to know exactly what ratio of descriptive:normative you’re accomplishing via any given attempt at transparency or common knowledge creation.
Yeah, I’m confused about this. Seems like some amount of “collapsing social uncertainty” is very good for healthy community dynamics, and too much (like having a live ranking of where you stand) would be wildly bad. I don’t think I currently have a precise way of cutting these things. My current best guess is that the more you push to make the work descriptive, the better, and the more it becomes normative and “shape up!”-oriented, the worse, but it’s hard to know exactly what ratio of descriptive:normative you’re accomplishing via any given attempt at transparency or common knowledge creation.
Sorry what do you mean here? With my poll specifically? The community in general?
Ratio of descriptive: “this is how things are” to normative: “shape up”