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Democracy?
(April 10, 2007) It's weird. These days, people invoke the word
democracy when they mean, "I want it my way." On the web, the sort of shouting
match that looks like Crossfire run amok is often portrayed as some form of
democracy. As soon as you buy into this view, it's not democracy when the
critics don't get what they want.
From here, democracy looks like something else.
At interbiznet, we made the decision, long ago,
to forego publishing comments as a part of our publication. (We get tons in
email and occasionally publish one.) The reasons ranged from
business model concerns to dealing with the actual hassle of keeping the
comments spam free (techcrunch removes 15,000 piece of comment spam a day) to
the impact on the burgeoning "recruitosphere".
I believed (and continue to believe) that not
having comment capacity at interbiznet enhances the growth of Recruiting
blogs. If that was the method for commenting on controversial pieces, it would cause others to
write and
publish on their own. Rather than carry
comments, we let people do it on their own pages.
That was four years ago and it seems to have
worked pretty well. There are no plans to change interbiznet's approach. It's
silly to toy with a formula that works.
In a recent concert, David Bromberg was heard to
say (as fans called out requests), "Now people, you know I don't accept
requests. Well, actually, I accept them, I just never perform them." My guess is
that it will be like that at interbiznet. We'll continue to accept comments we
will just only publish a very few.
However, each day's article will be posted in part
to Recruiting.com starting May 1 (earlier if someone wants to do it). The full
article will remain on interbiznet's site (this is a copyright question).
Comments on interbiznet material will appear in the Recruiting.com conversation
and I'll watch and listen. Where I choose to participate is an entirely
different matter.
In the Recruiting.com experiment, I am interested
in intelligent conversation.
Democracy, from my perspective, involves the
intelligent and civil exchange of ideas. Those ideas should flow and progress in
the conversation. I'll consider a gentle contribution when it seems like
my voice might make a difference.
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