Comments on: Digital Cow Tipping

By: darrelldk

darrelldk — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:16:07 +0000

I say a cow susceptible to tipping should read his or her mission statement rather than depend on the benevolence of a free market.

Let me make this clear: Cow-tipping can be very, very entertaining.

By: sethsimonds

sethsimonds — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:33:53 +0000

Oh, no. That was my typo. I was referring to your original thought of lifting rather than tipping a cow.

I shouldn't reply to comments on an empty stomach.

My bad. =)

By: DaveMurr

DaveMurr — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:06:52 +0000

D'oh! That was supposed to be lift a cow… That's what I get for typing on an empty stomach. Ha!

By: sethsimonds

sethsimonds — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:59:56 +0000

"easier to life a cow online than off"

Haha! I'm not sure I follow the metaphor entirely but I like the way it sounds! =)

Sometimes it's good to tip things. I just worry that if we tip too many digital cows for fun that the dangerous ones will get wary and the system will cease to work well.

Thanks Dave!

By: sethsimonds

sethsimonds — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:58:25 +0000

If you're not making up excuses to tip cows, I think you're in good territory. Like I said in the post, the technique is the same for both the “recreational” cow tippers and the ones trying to topple a beast for a reason. It starts and ends with intent.

By: DaveMurr

DaveMurr — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:02:00 +0000

There is no secret here. It's simply a matter of the verb. Change “tipping” to “lifting” and we will see results. The social web responds and works effectively when we help and lift others. And let's face it, its a hell of a lot easier to lift a cow online than off.

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By: darrelldk

darrelldk — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:50:17 +0000

Seth, I like you. We share similar community values, but different ideas about how to improve things for everyone – well, almost everyone in my case. Yours is mostly wishful thinking, while mine is actually effective. Like me, you’re idealistic and strive to improve communications in our respective neighborhoods. Yet since you don’t understand my neighborhood, I’m one you might derisively call a cow-tipper, and I’m not a bit ashamed of the label.

Your knee-jerk, feel-good, overly-simplistic reaction to vicious Internet tricks is honorable, but it is also foolishly authoritarian and impossible to enforce by un-following and otherwise blocking special bastards like you suggest. BCBSTX tried that with me on Twitter when I asked them questions about their NPI policy that they didn’t want to address publicly, and for good reason. Their lame defense of sticking their heads in the sand was a mistake. Now, if one visits BCBSTX’s Facebook account, I am their most frequent commentator, and what I am clearly describing to their potential clients are BCBSTX’s unfair policies that harm my dental patients.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=934870186...

This is exactly why I was blocked on Twitter by anonymous leaders at BCBSTX who do not want to be held accountable to those they serve. You can call me a cow-tipper if you want. I will not tolerate tyranny, regardless if tipping that cow over hard is unpopular.

I don’t go to any Website to enlist anyone to help. If some in my audience find interest and entertainment in what I pry open, discover and share, should I tell them not to click on links to my articles because that would be unfair to sleazy businesses like BCBSTX? Get real. And modernize your attitude while you’re at it.

I say if fat cows are off-balance and too damn slow and top-heavy to stay upright, perhaps it’s better for the herd to help the weak ones to hit the ground hard and mercifully halt the lineage of bad blood….

That’s my blunt opinion about herd management. I’ve learned that it’s also better to castrate and brand bulls while they’re young. It makes them more docile and easier to find if they stray. D. Kellus Pruitt DDS