Coordination isn’t as simple as everyone jumping simultaneously every time one person shouts “Jump!”
The cost of jumping is low. (It is also a simple action.)
Let’s run through a list of features I am missing that I expect to see on a Crowdacting website.
Might be useful to mention the ones you expect to see that are there. (Unless there weren’t any?)
I know this could be a tool to protest stupid laws by e.g joining together to start smoking cannabis in front of the White House. I would urge that the first site does not condone the breaking of laws, since that might kill the reputation of crowdacting and might get those types of sites banned by governments. (this is something CollAction thankfully already does) This doesn’t have to be as bad as it’s sounds. People will almost certainly find a way to work around this limitation. For example “Let’s all smoke in front of the white house to protest strict cannabis laws” can stay on the site because smoking in itself isn’t illegal.
Was there supposed to be a difference between the first example and the last example?
The jump is just a metaphor, some switches really are costly, but even if it isn’t people aren’t going to motivated to do an un-costly action if they think it’ll be useless waste of time anyway.
Well the basic stuff: The site allows you to upload your own projects (with their approval) and allows you to join other projects. The projects have clear deadlines and goals and once they are reached they are closed forever. The site is pretty. But I didn’t mention that you can also see how many people have already joined in (I’ll edit that last part in).
In the first example they are talking about smoking cannabis (illegal), in the second they are talking about smoking (not inherently illegal since you can smoke tabacco). I’ll make an edit to make it clearer.
The cost of jumping is low. (It is also a simple action.)
Might be useful to mention the ones you expect to see that are there. (Unless there weren’t any?)
Was there supposed to be a difference between the first example and the last example?
The jump is just a metaphor, some switches really are costly, but even if it isn’t people aren’t going to motivated to do an un-costly action if they think it’ll be useless waste of time anyway.
Well the basic stuff: The site allows you to upload your own projects (with their approval) and allows you to join other projects. The projects have clear deadlines and goals and once they are reached they are closed forever. The site is pretty. But I didn’t mention that you can also see how many people have already joined in (I’ll edit that last part in).
In the first example they are talking about smoking cannabis (illegal), in the second they are talking about smoking (not inherently illegal since you can smoke tabacco). I’ll make an edit to make it clearer.