When a web site promotes transparency and hides their own actions, what are your thoughts?
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My action is that I will not longer be wasting any of my time with them and this will hurt them--I can dedicated more time to other sites: Mahalo, Infobarrel, Hubpages... and so on. Many companies forget about the little people who help make them the site they are today. So I'll just go help another site build up competition against them like so many are doing. So my thoughts are that they suck, but in the long run, they are just hurting themselves.
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But it's a fact about human nature that people and organisatiions see their own actions differently than when those same things are done by others. When you do it, you know your motives, you have excuses, there were circumstances that explain why you had to do it. When others do it, you don't know their motives, and as often as not fill in the gap by attributing their behaviour to their bad character or malicious intent.
This kind of thing is so basic that psychology labels it the "Fundamental Attribution Error".
http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/fundamental_attribution_error.htm
http://allpsych.com/psychology101/attribution_attraction.html
On top of that, no one, and no organisation, lives up to their own values all of the time. That doesn't mean that those aren't really their values.
What I admire is that when people get called on falling short of their own standards, they put their hands up and say "you're right, that was a mistake."
Example... Wordpress-Gate...
http://ma.tt/2005/04/a-response/
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Not a very deep answer there, but my thoughts in response to this kind of thing are basically as simple as that...
I guess it could depend on the situation, but I've rarely seen any company or organisation hide something about itself for any reason that is a good one.
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Plus, I have a feeling this may be one of those gotcha questions. :-)
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The worst part of ehow is that they don't have a killer revenue share like Mahalo does.
:-)
They actually did this? Do you have a link? I have a friend who put in quite a bit of time there, and I'll bet he's livid.
Wow, thanks for letting me know about demand media -- a friend of mine has some content over there. The forum thread of it being resolved is hilarious.
Many people protested in the forums for months before ehow finally come clean about what they did. Then many members thought they would make it right, which the pretended to do, but not really
Watch the video at the ehow blog where the people actually admit to the UK site causing the members to lose money and how they will be "generously compensated"
http://blog.ehow.com/2010/01/ehow-video-blog-answers-to-uk-beta-site-questions/
This forum started by ehow that has numerous response:
http://www.ehow.com/forums.aspx?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3aeHow+GeneralForum%3a100Discussion%3af7351708-e40d-4cf3-b8ce-8d448de8303d&plckCategoryCurrentPage=0
Other member forums:
http://www.ehow.com/forums.aspx?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3aeHow+GeneralForum%3a102Discussion%3af011f2c7-a2f3-4e1b-abb3-5a5c04dd885f
http://www.ehow.com/forums.aspx?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3aeHow+GeneralForum%3a102Discussion%3ac2888364-0723-4c30-8dbb-205a978c7999