The KMCI is banned again!
Interesting to see the clash of styles, epistemologies and the power of collective pressure. KMCI principals Mark McElroy and Joe Firestone find another virtual space closed to them due to persistent abrasive and long posts.
Mark and Joe decry the injustice and claim the poverty of Epistemological Communitarianism will bring harm to all KM.
Joe's blog
What they fail to acknowledge is the social construction of knowledge, the need to respect & to pay attention to your audience, and to conduct a civil discourse. Here is a description of the pattern:
Pattern Name: (Scope, Purpose)
The pattern's name conveys the essence of the pattern succinctly. A good name is vital, because it will become part of your design vocabulary.
Tit for tat posts
Intent:
A short statement that answers the following questions: What does the design pattern do? What is its rationale and intent? What particular design issue or problem does it address?
Strict adherence to a quote and refutation posting style that irritates readers and leads to social ostracism
Also Known As:
Other well-known names for the pattern, if any.
Quote and refutation - you say, we say
Motivation:
A scenario that illustrates a design problem and how the class and object structures in the pattern solve the problem. The scenario will help you understand the more abstract description of the pattern that follows.
Selective quotes are abstracted from another's (listserv) post and critiqued in detail based on world views espoused by the respondent. Justifications and refutations, subtle publicity and self-endorsement.
Applicability:
What are the situations in which the design pattern can be applied? What are examples of poor designs that the pattern can address? How can you recognize these situations?
Excessive and exclusive use of quote and refute in listserve dialog. Starts with low volume and increases as others attempt to join the dialog, leading to posts of excessive length and ire of the community. Same views are repeated over and over - resulting in banning by the moderator
An applicable situation:
Structure
Participants
The classes and/or objects participating in the design pattern and their responsibilities.
See posts from 2000 to 2004 at KnowledgeBoard, and act-km, AOK K-net, KM Best Practices Yahoo groups involving McElroy and Firestone + various respondents.
Collaborations:
How the participants collaborate to carry out their responsibilities.
Joe and Mark tend to gang up, corroborate and backup one another's views and assertions
Consequences
How does the pattern support its objectives? What are the trade-offs and results of using the pattern? What aspect of system structure does it let you vary independently?
The posting style allows no wiggle room, there is excessive reliance on selective quoting and personal interpretation of anothers text, dialog flow is destroyed, there is no give and take and a dominance in the turn-taking.
Description of consequence
Implementation
What pitfalls, hints, or techniques should you be aware of when implementing the pattern? Are there language-specific issues?
The KMCI is banned from virtual KM spaces where they attempt to espouse their views.
Example:
[Esteban]
> I like your claim " the world of the products of the intelligent mind"
> as a description of world 3... Yes I think that world 3 objects exists when a
> knower holds the shared identical copy in their mind and gives them meaning
> and life...
[Firestone]
Here's where we part company. I hold that the world 3 object exists as long as there is a disposition for a knower to understand the content of the object when and if the knower attempts to grasp it. If no knower is present the disposition is still there and so the world 3 object, once created, is not dependent on the knower. This is the basic idea of "epistemology without a knowing subject", the basic idea behind the notion of Obective Knowledge. This point brings us back to the beginning of this discussion, now more than a year old.
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Related Patterns:
What design patterns are closely related to this one? What are the important differences? With which other patterns should this one be used?
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