TheDude December 11, 2012 Share TheDude December 11, 2012 (edited) So at the moment i have to begin negotiating with my professors over a subject for my final dissertation. I'm studying law and i approached my law psychology professor with the following proposal: Every law system is in many ways a natural reaction set up by people who want to make rules and enforce them. In every possible scenario, the same core characteristics can be found in a community that sets up a system to enforce the rules they create. I would make a study about this, in which my prime example and subject of study would be... GC! GC is a community which is hold together by a set of rules (of course i know there's waaaaaaay more to GC than just rules, a community makes rules, rules don't make a community). These rules are also enforced (by the admins and also other members), and there's even a 'court of appeal' (the banned forums). There's discussions including: should members be allowed a less strict treatment or the other way around? (please don't answer this question in this post, it's just an example, i'm not trying to incite a discussion). Are the enforcers (admins) above the rules? (no), but what happens if they do slip up? etc. There's about a 25% chance of me being allowed to make this my subject, as there are other interesting subjects and the fact that this is a very unexplored subject as of yet. (at least in Belgium) the best thing about it? My resource study for my dissertation would actually include hanging around these forums and playing games with you guys Really hope they allow me to do it The Dude Edited December 11, 2012 by TheDude 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingCat December 11, 2012 Share walkingCat December 11, 2012 Interesting choice for a dissertation, dude! Good luck with it! Too bad you can't play CS GO. I'll be a part of a project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieChan December 11, 2012 Share JackieChan December 11, 2012 If you need me for something (what that would be, no one knows), let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaftiel December 11, 2012 Share shaftiel December 11, 2012 Jackie makes a great paperweight. Shaftiel 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieChan December 11, 2012 Share JackieChan December 11, 2012 I'm going to somehow bring a painball gun to FF and shoot you in the neck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lousiest December 11, 2012 Share lousiest December 11, 2012 will my name appear in your dissertation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDude December 12, 2012 Author Share TheDude December 12, 2012 will my name appear in your dissertation? Well... there's a good chance my supervisor's report will contain the word lousy... so there you go 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lousiest December 12, 2012 Share lousiest December 12, 2012 lololol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake December 12, 2012 Share Cake December 12, 2012 interesting, good luck with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tainted92 December 12, 2012 Share tainted92 December 12, 2012 Sounds good Dude, but beware your paper doesn't become somehow... tainted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairweather December 12, 2012 Share Fairweather December 12, 2012 ddo iiittttttttttttt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDude December 14, 2012 Author Share TheDude December 14, 2012 Update: A student from a neighboring college here in Belgium made his thesis about proprietary law in World of Warcraft and Second Life My professor proprietary law was in the jury and kept talking about WoW (only he pronounced it WaaaaaauuuuuuW) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty December 19, 2012 Share Fatty December 19, 2012 we should make the [Mmmm] forum public....I've already written your dissertation for you in there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty December 19, 2012 Share Fatty December 19, 2012 I'm going to somehow bring a painball gun to FF and shoot you in the neck. someone is gonna kick you in the nuts at FF2013....that's painball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaRvIn December 19, 2012 Share MaRvIn December 19, 2012 I'm going to somehow bring a painball gun to FF and shoot you in the neck. someone is gonna kick you in the nuts at FF2013....that's painball I will bring my paintball gun for you Jackie, it would make my day to see him shot in the neck with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soap January 4, 2013 Share Soap January 4, 2013 So at the moment i have to begin negotiating with my professors over a subject for my final dissertation. I'm studying law and i approached my law psychology professor with the following proposal: Every law system is in many ways a natural reaction set up by people who want to make rules and enforce them. In every possible scenario, the same core characteristics can be found in a community that sets up a system to enforce the rules they create. I would make a study about this, in which my prime example and subject of study would be... GC! GC is a community which is hold together by a set of rules (of course i know there's waaaaaaay more to GC than just rules, a community makes rules, rules don't make a community). These rules are also enforced (by the admins and also other members), and there's even a 'court of appeal' (the banned forums). There's discussions including: should members be allowed a less strict treatment or the other way around? (please don't answer this question in this post, it's just an example, i'm not trying to incite a discussion). Are the enforcers (admins) above the rules? (no), but what happens if they do slip up? etc. There's about a 25% chance of me being allowed to make this my subject, as there are other interesting subjects and the fact that this is a very unexplored subject as of yet. (at least in Belgium) the best thing about it? My resource study for my dissertation would actually include hanging around these forums and playing games with you guys Really hope they allow me to do it The Dude0 you must post it and share it here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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