| WereKitten said: @Richardhutnik Was this ironic? As often happens when overwhelmed by discordant buzzing my radar is off. Btw: technocracy, technocratic, technocrat are words dating back almost a century, look them up. Technocrat doesn't mean tweaker, hacker, modder, fiddler or author. Not even Malstrom is using it in that sense in his rant. |
I won't say every technocrat is a tweaker/hacker/modder/fiddler/author. But, these people are usually technocrat(i), particularly if they elevate their opinion of life to be superior to people who aren't as dedicated as them, and have knowledge bases in other area. Individuals who come to and ask why you haven't coverted your laptop over to Linux, and so on, fit into this. My mention of tweakers, etc... was in reference to user generated content. The non-hardcore just consume the content. They don't created, nor do they have an interested in creating it. An estimate of what I saw was that 90% of a community are consumers of content, rather than producers. I don't count giving feedback as creating content, merely providing input to the creators.
Anyhow, I believe a useful insight here is to take what Malstrom wrote, and take other opinions here, and have these as points of insight:
1. Community ownership of a product is key to its success. This ownership is more than just the acquiring of it, but the ability for the community to tweak it as it sees fit, and also involves transfer of ownership over to someone else.
2. In a community, most people are end users. They rely on others to do tweaks needed.
3. A small percentage of the community produce content, do tweaks, and make sure everything works, to meet the needs of the community. These individuals need and desire mod tools.
4. Focusing too much on the small percentage that does tweaking, as the end all and be all, is to ignore the needs of the consumers in the community, which is most of the users.
