Comments on: We need to have some rules for making some rules https://www.isegoria.net/2018/01/we-need-to-have-some-rules-for-making-some-rules/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Echo Delta https://www.isegoria.net/2018/01/we-need-to-have-some-rules-for-making-some-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-2603510 Echo Delta Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:04:17 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42928#comment-2603510 Definitely one of the main patterns in Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the commons.

I was surprised that text didn’t come up, especially when the analogy to “economists” and “political scientists” come up.

A designer doing social software expecting groups to be formed and sustained, and that doesn’t know (or hasn’t incorporated) the patterns from Ostrom, is like a backend dev that doesn’t know about threads, or a web UI coder that doesn’t know about CSS — inevitably will produce bad work, and typically is hired by a manager|customer that’s just as incompetent in knowing the skills required.

]]> By: Ross https://www.isegoria.net/2018/01/we-need-to-have-some-rules-for-making-some-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-2603474 Ross Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:18:43 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42928#comment-2603474 Thanks to you and Morlock…great post. going to read Bion.

Building “rules on rules” Huh… seems to me that’s a familiar structure of human games…. of the infinite variety.

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