As Sharon pointed out, my “Fish tales” experiment the other day was a mixed bag. On the one hand, the sandbox nature of it fostered a sense of openness by letting anybody modify anybody else’s movie. On the other hand, it really was a sandbox, in the sense that any sand castle you make might be gone the next time you visit the sandbox.<\/p>\n
Which means people aren’t going to put a lot of work into making something great. In the immortal words of Rutger Hauer, “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”<\/p>\n
So what to do? I don’t want to allow people to type in names for their creations, because that will open the whole thing up to trolls — I worry that I’ll come back in two months to find that somebody has used my little fish tales space as a place to invent new varieties of curse words.<\/p>\n
My thought is to let everyone create in their own private sandbox until the moment they want to save their work. Then I prompt them to type a password (unseen by anybody but them). Once your work is uploaded, anybody can see it, but if you want to modify something that’s up on the site, you need to know its password.<\/p>\n
This has the advantage that people who want to work together on something can still do it — one person uploads it, and then shares the password with their collaborator(s).<\/p>\n
There is still the problem that the site might get cluttered with hundreds of uninteresting fish tales, which will make it impossible for visitors to find the really good ones.<\/p>\n
One solution might be to rank each fish tale by how often people play it (weighted by how much<\/i> of it they play), roughly following the YouTube philosophy. If tale 47 gets a lot more play than tale 93, then maybe it’s more worth your while to check out tale 47.<\/p>\n
I’m open to suggestions on all this. I’d love to figure out a good general model for effectively nurturing a creative community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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