Building consensus online
From:
Miles Fidelman
Date:
2008 Feb 02 14:45 UTC
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Lucas Cioffi wrote:
> I think these answers might help us put this conversation in context:
> -What is the largest *online* consensus ever reached?
> -What is the largest *offline *consensus ever reached?
>
Good questions!
I'm not sure, but there's a good case to be made that ratification of
the U.S. Constitution might be the largest offline consensus ever
reached - what with the representative drafting of it, followed by a
huge amount of debate (both in pubs and cafes and in the media - can you
say Federalist Papers?), followed by a national vote.