Communities and their Crushers

Truly scary “community crashers” with a warped need for approval, pulling down leaders with false innuendos | Caricone News

• attack pattern
  • Spreading rumors behind the backs of key members. It is judged that “where there is no fire, there is no smoke.”
  • Repeat the lie.
  • Befriend important people and get “rounded up” when their behavior is called into question.
  • Putting pressure on the weak and turning them into henchmen. Use henchmen to replace their own opinions with “everyone else’s”.
  • If you see it as a problem, you evade pointing it out by creating an atmosphere of hassle.
• Sources of Action
  • desire for approval
  • When you don’t get respect in the community, you satisfy your need for approval by tearing someone down.
• cope
  • If maintaining the community is important to you, you have to purge.
  • Gather facts and denounce them in front of a large audience that includes important people.
  • The crusher is preserved by the feeling that it is a hassle or mental hardship (the feeling of a free rider who does not pay the cost of maintaining the community).

Productivity Improvement through Community Recommendations

• Explained in terms of theory of games prisoner’s dilemma, in conjunction with Binmore’s “Game Theoretic Foundations of Justice”. #Justice

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