Crocker’s Rules strikes me as something someone thought was a good idea based on some sort of first principles reasoning more than trying to improve actual social interactions after lots of observation and experiment.
Declaring the Rules has been around for at least ten years. How many cases have there been where declaring the Rules has led to an useful social interaction that otherwise would not have taken place?
Or to turn this around, any way to guesstimate the amount of useful social interaction, which requires both someone having useful new information to provide and the recipient being actually able to receive and use the information, that gets lost due to politeness? And what about the interactions that end up noise from the “honest talk” being redundant or otherwise not useful, that do not get made due to politeness norms?
Random and anonymous commenters seem to already do the speaking their mind thing very well even when Crocker’s Rules are not declared, and their input is mostly noise.
Crocker’s Rules strikes me as something someone thought was a good idea based on some sort of first principles reasoning more than trying to improve actual social interactions after lots of observation and experiment.
Declaring the Rules has been around for at least ten years. How many cases have there been where declaring the Rules has led to an useful social interaction that otherwise would not have taken place?
Or to turn this around, any way to guesstimate the amount of useful social interaction, which requires both someone having useful new information to provide and the recipient being actually able to receive and use the information, that gets lost due to politeness? And what about the interactions that end up noise from the “honest talk” being redundant or otherwise not useful, that do not get made due to politeness norms?
Random and anonymous commenters seem to already do the speaking their mind thing very well even when Crocker’s Rules are not declared, and their input is mostly noise.