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