Dan, true that!

At leadership consultations in my high school ("A-levels") days, it
was quite upsetting for us the students to be told "before I tell you
what I have decided, do you have anything to say?" by the school
leadership. One found no point in saying anything since everything had
been decided, anyway.

Thank David,

Alex

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Dan Krimm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Brilliant.  I'm definitely going to steal that.  Sort of like the
> "refudiation" of crowdsourcing.
>
> Systematically-manipulated (or systematically "refudiated") public opinion
> polls can also be (and often are) used for crowdstamping, by the way.  It's
> not just a feature of open-comment processes, but can be applied as a
> variant where public opinion is manufactured artificially.  This is a
> technique that goes all the way back to high school.
>
> "Everyone" says so!  The People have spoken!  :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
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> At 11:53 AM +0800 8/4/10, David Cake wrote:
>>       A useful neologism for ICANN processes (via Lillian Edwards
>>twitter feed)
>>Crowdstamping - going through the motions in asking the public about
>>a policy but rubberstamping it anyway.
>>       (term apparently coined by Uk web developer Stef Lewandowski
>>in reponse to UK government consultation that, in response to 9,500
>>public submissions,resulted in every responding government dept
>>uniformly saying they should keep doing exactly what they were doing)
>>       Regards
>>               David
>