<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>This is bullshit, moreover when very few people keep on harassing and insulting anyone not agreeing with them here.</div><div><br></div><div>This isn't a swarm, it's a melting pot of activists from parties at a diferent stage of maturity + a bunch of fools/morons.</div><div><br></div><div>So, if this list can't be that swarm, let's start a new and fresh one (as you suggested in your swarmwise).</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to relly me, add me to cc, as I have just unsubscribed.</div><div>It's sad, I've been in this mailing list since 2009, but right now it's just a piece of shit. This "swarm" is dead.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kenneth</div><br><br><br>-------- Missatge original --------<br>De: "Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet)" <rick.falkvinge@piratpartiet.se> <br>Data: 15/06/2013 14:23 (GMT+01:00) <br>A: Pirate Parties International -- General Talk <pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net> <br>Assumpte: [pp.int.general] Rättning mittåt, sort of: some thoughts for the mailing list <br> <br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Dear colleagues,<br><br>I read the notice of a formal complaint about this channel. It was not<br>set up to be a moderated channel, nor is it one. Therefore, a formal<br>complaint is kind of an oxymoron as there are no formal rules to base<br>a complaint on.<br><br>After all, rules that cannot reasonably be enforced are not rules you<br>want to have. You cannot keep somebody from posting to an open list,<br>and openness is a virtue. The alternative would be moderating posts<br>and/or participants, and that's not who we are; that's not the swarm<br>way of collaborating.<br><br><br>Instead, I'd like to remind everybody about two important principles:<br><br>- - Attention is reward.<br>- - If you see something you don't like, contribute with something<br> you do like.<br><br><br>ATTENTION IS REWARD: If you give somebody attention for a behavior,<br>you will reinforce that behavior, whether the behavior is something<br>you want to see more or less of. This means that giving attention to<br>things you dislike is inherently self-defeating, as they will be<br>nurtured by your attention.<br><br><br>IF YOU SEE SOMETHING YOU DON'T LIKE, CONTRIBUTE WITH SOMETHING YOU DO<br>LIKE: This is closely related to the Law of Two Feet. We're a<br>meritocracy where we're dependent on many people trying many different<br>things. Leadership with us is not achieved by vote or appointment, but<br>by taking an initiative and letting others follow that initiative of<br>their own free will. Disliking an initiative is fine, but criticizing<br>the initiative from that emotion misses the point - being pioneers, we<br>must necessarily try many paths, and many of them will be dead ends,<br>but we don't know that before trying them. The more paths we try, the<br>more ways of success we'll find. Therefore, the proper response to<br>seeing somebody walk down a path you don't believe in is to walk down<br>your own path that you believe more in.<br><br><br>(As a final plug, these and many more principles are covered more<br>in-depth in my book Swarmwise, which covers my leadership experiences<br>taking the PPSE from nothing into the European Parliament. Five<br>chapters have been published so far, and you can read them here:<br><br>http://falkvinge.net/2013/02/14/swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-the-world-chapter-one/<br><br>)<br><br>Cheers,<br>Rick<br><br><br><br>PS: On the rare occasion, I have seen disrespect against fellow<br>activists on this mailing list, and I never think that's ok. Whether<br>to call it out or not is a judgment call on a case-by-case basis, but<br>that will not be done by the mailing list maintainers in that role.<br>See the two names as technical administrators of the mailing list<br>server, and not enforcers of any kind of social rules.<br><br><br>- -- <br>Rick Falkvinge<br>Founder of the first Pirate Party<br>Piratpartiet SE<br><br>@Falkvinge<br>+46708303600<br><br>Blog, bio and press photos at http://falkvinge.net/photos-bio/<br><br>My mails are always digitally signed. If you get a mail that isn't, it<br>was not sent by me.<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)<br>Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/<br><br>iEYEARECAAYFAlG8XLUACgkQ7pnTrWI4jx2N6gCgir2luXwVjBJmicL/9LbwM5fo<br>yB0AoIAsEPMHXT7oizc1rJ7O2zSA9No0<br>=+ojY<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>____________________________________________________<br>Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br>pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general<br></body>