Could website functionality improve the effectiveness of, and divisions within 911truth?

There is a widely accepted model for evolutionary change which goes by the catchy title of the Lewontin-Campbell Heuristic. It says that the process of evolution contains three distinct concurrently repeating phases; diversification, selection, and amplification. It applies not only to biological, but any form of evolutionary change including cultural, economic, and political.
Effective Change=Diversity x Advantageous Selection x Amplification
Mass communication greatly enhanced the potential for cultural/political change in one of these three areas, in that it dramatically increased the AMPLIFICATION of selected ideas. However, unless great care is taken to ensure that mass communication reflects the DIVERSITY of human interests, and that the SELECTION process for its content is democratic and based on merit to the majority , then the other two factors affecting the ability to change are compromised, and in fact instead of progress, a cultural anchor is laid down preventing change and dictating homogonous stagnation.
For example, if access to mass communication ended up in the hands of an elite cartel who used it to further their own interests by narrowing the focus of representation, censoring dissent, and amplifying only the ideas selected by themselves which were in their best interests, then this medium would become an effective and powerful tool for preventing change.
People who have seen past this 'Manufacture of Consent' would argue that this is exactly what has happened, and observe that from the off, print was dominated by religious indoctrination for political purposes, and subsequently has generally never improved, although the diversity, technology and sophistication of mass deception serving a minority controlling elite has improved substantially.
It is no surprise to me that under these circumstances the first century of global mass communication also happens to be the most inhumanely cynical and environmentally damaging era in the unimaginably long evolution of humanity since its emergence approximately 6 million years ago.
In 2001 they had become so arrogant and confident of their powers that they carried out the most cynical attempt yet to manipulate humanity, but they made two big mistakes.
Firstly, to further their vested interests and manipulate public opinion (again), they attempted to explain the explosive demolition of 3 WTC asbestos ridden white elephant skyscrapers on the earlier impact of plane crashes, defying the laws of physics which had otherwise remained empirically proven and unchallenged since their discovery.
Secondly they miscalculated their ability to cover it up, because although their mainstream media and co opted politicians have censored the fact that their explanation of the incident has been proven to be untrue and hopelessly compromised at every level, they underestimated the internet as a new source of mass communication and information outside of their control, and the will of a significant and growing percentage of the population who would not let the event be forgotten until they had a reasonable explanation of what happened.
THE INTERNET.
The net radically changes the factors involved in the Lewontin-Campbell Heuristic when compared to broadcast media.
Effective Change=Diversity x advantageous selection x Amplification
DIVERSITY is increased dramatically with every single user having the ability to post their ideas into an unlimited cache of information instead of a privileged few contributing to limited print space or airtime .
The SELECTION process of good ideas is potentially much more efficient, and importantly, democratic,as everyone could be included in the selection process ensuring that selections were representative of and advantageous for the masses.
Potentially AMPLIFICATION is as powerful as print or broadcast media, as long as structures are in place to represent and promote the democratically and inclusively selected best ideas.
To see an example of how this model could work in practice, consider Change.org, and their poll to canvass the top 10 policy ideas to be presented to Obama on inauguration day. Wow, internet democracy in action! Although of course, as it happened, the front runner (911 investigation) was bizarrely retired from the race by the administrators even though it was in 1st place with more than twice the votes of any other issue
http://www.911blogger.com/node/18654
Of course all of these are only potential advantages of the new medium, and the reality (so far) is much more depressing and problematic.
Having not personally had to deal with the complexities of site administration myself, please forgive my arrogance at backseat driving, but I guess that the main issues involved in applying an efficient Lewontin-Campbell Heuristic in political blogging and online democracy are:
1. Disruption and infiltration of the discussions by politically opposite adversaries, idiots, or the uninformed, whereby mere volume of posting by minority view participants could outweigh , bury, and disrupt fair discussion.
2. Degeneration of arguments into personal insults putting off participants in the process.
3. A fair, open, and publicly monitored and approved moderation policy.
4. The required mechanics of a fair democratic selection/voting process, to ensure that each person only had one vote per issue, and did not possess multiple identities.
5. A structure whereby democratically selected ideas are promoted and advanced to higher levels of amplification. (News sites which proportionally and democratically select , reflect and amplify previously selected ideas from all the specialist discussion communities.)
However we are still in the very early days of the new medium. It is the first time ever that humanity possesses a tool sophisticated enough to allow it to break the shackles and manipulation of the controlling elite and their indoctrination.
We know that it is perceived as a powerful threat against the oligarchy, by the way they are now openly fighting back and attempting to neutralize our first ever effective weapon against them.
We already have infiltration and designed strategies against our usage , it has already maimed our potential effectiveness, but we are still here, and if this tactic fails to contain us, we can expect the abolishment of net neutrality(Putting content and prioritization of information into the same hands that own the MSM ie our ISPs) to strike a massive blow against us.
In the mean time is there anything we can do to the functionality and administration of websites to maximize the chances of effective change using the principles of the Lewontin-Campbell Heuristic?

Open Moderation
A PHP programmer could be contracted to create an 'open moderation module' for Drupal. Drupal is the open source software that runs WTCDemolition.com/blog and 911blogger.com.
Once created, Drupal Modules can be downloaded by any website using a modern installation of Drupal.
i would suggest...
that instead of installing it here on WTCD we start from scratch and create a new drupal site, one that would bill itself as being "democratically moderated". this way we could begin with a clean slate and the new site would not be seen (and would not be) an offshoot of this site which is already known as having a particular slant. the only issue i can see is who would host it, who would pay for hosting, etc. since that person would ultimately have control of the site...
I'd be willing
in theory to host it for free until the load becomes too great for the systems at my disposal. I know I'm trustworthy but of course the rest of you don't; I don't know if there's some way to create transparency in the hosting & domain administration process, but if there is, I'm willing to try.
an interesting article
thanks AA, sorry it took me awhile to get to it! I would argue that while such efforts are worthwhile, we need to always bear in mind the reality. for example, no system based on democratic principles has been as yet devised that is immune to gaming. in fact the appearance of democracy is precisely how the status quo cements itself--by convincing people that the system is not being gamed and that as such there is no need to question its outcomes, it being supposed that they reflect the will of the majority. consequently I would suggest that concurrent with the development of the "physical" structures and systems for discourse we must develop and promote/spread/amplify cognitive tools, we might say memes, that enable us to be the best possible users of those systems, up to and including the ability to recognize when the systems must be retooled, destroyed, replaced, etc. in short? there's no quick fix to the problem of information quality control, though that doesn't mean we shouldn't try...
Absolutely right . If you
Absolutely right .
If you implement true democracy overnight, the first issue tomorrow would be "Kick the (Your minority here) out of the country".
It is probable that the public needs a "reorientation" course before it could be trusted with democracy. As I said early days, but I hope people will be aware of the truly revolutionary possibility of the new medium , and continue to refine / experiment with it, aware of its true potential.
I always thought the first step would be to give say 5% of government votes over to pushbutton democracy,to grease the wheels, and then work upwards from there.(Assuming fair voting technology could ever be foolproof). That way the people would actually vote on policy decisions rather than Red or Blue every 5 years to elect someone else to make all their decisions for them.
I am realistic however that the powers that have prevented change for centuries are unlikely to relinquish their grip to the new medium, and will find a way to neutralize it, under the excuse of anti porn, anti extremism or enforcing copyright. I expect the first move will be Isp's offering a "premium package" that contains MSM & Commercial websites, and an alternate anything goes free access package which costs 10x more. (Thus minimalizing the threat) .
The fact remains however that I believe for the first time ever, we actually have the tool that COULD work. After all no one would ever want to go back to snail mail and so maybe the rest is an inevitable downhill slide into people power. I dont know, but the existence of sites like this are already the proof of the pudding, and It gives me more hope than any other mechanism for change I have observed in my lifetime/education.
That is unless we happened to live in Venezuela.
The one assumption I make is
The one assumption I make is that democracy can be trusted more than Oligarchy or any other elite rule, but every instinct tells me it can be. I will give my reasons in another thread soon on 'the evolution of truth'
BTW I was not actually
BTW I was not actually passing comment on this site or suggesting need for change here, (aimed elsewhere) more a general comment about the potential of the medium, but if anyone wants to try and improve a blogging system,and start a new site I am all for it. It would be a fascinating experiment.
The idea of democracy
The idea of democracy through the internet is novel, but just like computerized or even balot box voting, any none transparent mechanism is potentially vulnerable to capture by the rich and powerfull. in other words, it almost does not matter what medium we use to aggregate our sentiments on policies, they will all be corrupted unless we have an effective way to verify that results reflect the true votes cast by people.
There are a couple of things
There are a couple of things to point out. Never before in our history has there been the technology for people to create and publish their own info on a level playing field without huge capital. Regular policy voting was also not possible because the expense of each poll. There was no possibility other than power by representation. Selection and evaluation of ideas could only be through a select few published critics(open to influence of prejudice) (Except for box office etc which is related to marketing as much as merit).
My only point is that now there IS the possibility. Whether it is realized, advantageous,or allowed is another thing.
In fact there is a very simple way of making elections game proof which is to publish each persons vote, which can then be subsequently verified if needed. The problem is if you want to make a secret ballot game proof. You can either accept this as a cost for the new system, People openly declaring their votes publicly, or if you need to make the system private and fair then there are possibilities for securing the system being discussed already, see e voting technology etc.
the elites are always ready...
...to take advantage of paradigm shifts, as they have the time, money, and inclination to stay on top of trends that might affect their privileged position. of course some elites are better informed or prepare themselves better than others for the changes, leading to significant shifts in control at the top, but still within a narrow strata of humanity. mass-distributed two-way communication is a development however that appears to have been difficult for the elites to eitehr nip in the bud or at this point fully usurp for their exclusive ends. we might not know this but for the fact that the truth movement, having likely been created pre-emptively by the 9/11 perps and their allies, has been able to grow enough of its own independent agency that a trend is definitely noticeable from the powers that be ignoring it, to ridiculing it, now more and more to attacking it. we know what is supposed to happen after that stage, as do the elites who wish it would not. understanding these dynamics is crucial not just to preserve the existence and growth of the truth movement but even more importantly to preserve the existence and growth of the techonologies, policies, and conventions that have allowed the truth movement to flourish to the extent that it has, so that it and other important social justice movements might continue to do so...
just a tad off topic...
but note that in the world of spectator sports fans are now accustomed to seeing this sort of thing... http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/flashPollResultsState?sportIndex=nfl&p... I'm sure some of them are thinking "man, if voting on politics was THIS easy, I'd do it more than once every four years for sure!"
what if...
Please leave some feedback about this idea...specifically why it might not be a good idea...
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What if users managed their own website and all content was shared between sites. Each users can login and post content but they can also access another featured invovling content. They can dictate which content from other users they would like to display on their site.
So my site mite be a simple blog along with some static pages like "about me" and "WTC 7 Guide".
If I choose to share my WTC 7 guide section, other users who use the system could 'enable' that content on their own websites. The section would be automatically updated when ever I, the owner of the WTC 7 section at jpass911.com, made updates.
No comments allowed on static pages. But blogs would allow cross-website commenting. I might decide that I want to allow other user content on my home page. I log in and do a quick search of users / content. If Gretavo has 'shared' the section on his website detailing Urban Moving Systems, I would then be able to enable that as a section on my own website. If Gretavo updates it to fix some errors, it updates all sites using this shared content.
Comments would work on a site to site basis. Your own site would only handle comments on your own content. If I've enabled sharing on my site of Gretavo's blog, then his blog entries would show up on my site but only with link to his site. His site is where the comments would take place. This way everyone gets action on their sites.
All users have their own unique domain name and have to pay their own hosting.
JPass