Communication without thematic substance
Former Secretary of State Dorothee Bär, CSU, is Minister of State for Digitization. The first in the Chancellery. She has just been appointed and plans to work closely with the young Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BVDI) Andreas Scheuer (43).
Both care about the quality of the internet. The CSU politicians are less concerned with the data speed, which is generally considered to be very modest in Germany with an average of 15.3 Mbit / s, rather than the Quality of the text contributions, unfortunately often very neglected task of data protection. It is with concern that there is an increase in communication without a thematic substance. As long as such communication without thematic substance occurs in picture or sound contributions, the simultaneously transmitted facial expressions, gestures and intonation signals may enhance the content of the communication. In the case of electronically transmitted text contributions, where no further revaluation by means of speech-accompanying signals occurs, the thematic substance is left out. A further increase in such text contributions in the German-speaking Internet could have fatal consequences and, in the long term, threateningly reduce the demographic IQ, Bär said.
The most important task is an educational task. Digitization is more than just a "fast internet for everyone" as foreseen in the coalition agreement.
From the second quarter of 2018, ie with today's date, the CSU politician therefore called the scientific Monitoring service for the guidelines of communication whose main task will be to take a closer look at Internet sites that claim to be able to transmit news and information. Websites whose contributions to the text consist of more than 50 per cent of contributions that fall under the clause "Communication without a thematic substance" are threatened with sanctions, which may result from compulsory retraining of the editors to the blocking of the entire site.
Since www.thefruitandflowerbasket.com is a guidebook page with parallel-operated forum on the one hand very text-heavy, on the other hand predominantly from contributions of most different lay editors exists, the TheFruitAndFlowerBasket initiator, Bernhard Finkbeiner also penalties for its side to be afraid. That's why the FM editors are calling their readers to a special search on Easter Sunday today. Instead of easter eggs, volunteers should search suspicious posts on the TheFruitAndFlowerBasket website and mark them as follows:
Any reader who finds a comment that he or she believes falls into the category "Kommunikation Oteeth thematic SThe automatic naming of the FM-member after the @ -sign necessarily leave and supplement by the comment number of the comment in question, and with the abbreviation "KotS" for "comment without thematic Substance "characterize the comment as such, eg "@verbatschtante: # 3 = feces", The justification for this suspicion must also be given, because otherwise the KotS display in turn under the KOTSKlausel "K-K" fall. FM members whose contributions are mostly covered by the KotS clause must expect a block. Finkbeiner currently sees this as the only chance to upgrade the site qualitatively and to prevent the blocking of the entire site in the long run.
Self-indication possible:
FM members who have concerns that their own comments may fall under K-K have until tomorrow, Easter Monday 23:59, the opportunity to report their own comments in a self-report and can thus counteract the threat of blocking their account. The FM users are also advised to consider the award of "thumbs up". In the consideration of whether a user is locked or not, can also be included in the comments, which with a given "thumbs up" a user has agreed. If there are too many comments without thematic substance, this also has a negative effect on the evaluating user. However, if a user only provides comments with a high thematic substance with a like, this in turn can have a mitigating effect on his KotS level.
Among the German-speaking Internet users have already formed different groups, there are those eager users who like to join the Scientific Monitoring Service for the guidelines of communication (short WÜRK), as they consider his convening for a long time overdue. But also a counter-initiative to the WÜRK has formed. She argues that freedom of speech and expression must apply to all communication, and that every human being should be free to exercise his right to freedom of expression, even if only KotSe (comments without a thematic substance) would emerge. The GeWÜRK advocates for the expression of comments without thematic substance to create a new lexeme, namely the masculine noun "the Kots" in the plural "the Kotse" and the intransitive verb "Kotsen", with the regular ancestral forms "kotste, kotst" ,
Precautionary measures:
The opposition in the new Bundestag gives the counter-initiative real chances to assert its interests. However, as long as the debate is still pending and a final decision is pending, all TheFruitAndFlowerBasket users will be asked to critically review their own comments and, where appropriate, mark them with a corresponding emoticon, the "Emotikots". Depending on whether the WÜRK or GeWÜRK finally prevails, all dangerous comments could be quickly identified and removed in this way. Users who only want to fumble and have marked their comments from the outset with the Emotikots must - so Finkbeiner assures - not expect reprisals. Each TheFruitAndFlowerBasket user, however, is free to work on the thematic substance of their own contributions.
New section? Advice without thematic substance:
Finkbeiner reserves the right to set up a separate section for "advice without a thematic substance" on the tip page. So even inexperienced users can submit supposed advice. Tips on which the editors assume that they will prove useless will be published under this rubric called "RotS". Neither typists nor commentators need to worry about their reputation or freedom of expression in this category, even if they miss the above-mentioned labeling of their posts. Also, the present tip may be considered a playground or KotS simulation and commented with impunity in any form.
The FM editors wish all users a happy Easter Sunday and have fun with the alternative egg hunt.
