The Wisdom of the crowds
At first take, this sounds counter intuitive, if you think about it in the more traditional “crowd psychology/mentality” sense. It usually brings to mind destructive behaviour like looting or throwing around tomatoes or running with bulls…But are creative solutions more likely to develop when the crowd runs free? The idea of cross-pollination and the community building on each other’s ideas assumes that the ego of the individual is subservient to the crowd, that better ideas than yours are automatically seized upon and celebrated. Bear in mind I'm talking upon uncurated CS platforms.They may be experts or novices weighing in on your ideas. The more “likes” the more thumb’s up the better the idea? That’s possible. But I think common desires and preferences only maintain the status quo and do not disrupt it. If Innovation and big ideas lie somewhere in the disruption of the usual order of things, sharing, discussion, cross-pollination starts to fight against true innovation. Big, creative disruptive ideas can intimidate people. That’s a natural reaction. The crowd may in fact harbor big ideas, but in the light of public forums and galleries, they may not survive.
