Debug the World Blog

All about Debug the World

Let's start with the problems!

written by ste, on Sep 18, 2010 1:14:00 PM.

So Debug the World is up and running. You probably noticed that already. What now? It has to start! And for this it needs YOU, your problems, your creativity, your ideas,...

If you observe or suffer from a problem in your daily life, consider creating a problem. There you can describe the problem with all details. Tell the people visiting why it is a problem, how it affects people, how long it already exists and so forth.

What kind of problems belong on Debug the World you might ask yourself. Good question. I hope the general idea is clear, but as usual the details have to be discussed. I tried to describe some rules in the terms of use. This still needs interpretation.

First notice, that it has to concern a group of people. If you have lost your job, as sad as this is, it does not belong here. If a company closes down and 1000 people lose their job, it would qualify.

The next point tries to limit the subject of the problem. I am not sure if this list is already definitive. The goal is to exclude for example programming or financial problems (that do not have an effect on the mentioned subjects!). The example with the jobs would qualify as it concerns the life and health of the persons who lose their jobs.

To prevent small day to day problem that affect many people but are not really "significant" to clutter Debug the World, trivial problem are not permitted. What I meant by this: How to remove a stain from a towel could pass the other criteria but is trivial. Significant problems could be a dry period in a certain region or the waste of environmental resources.

The last point about the Human Rights is there to define that we do not want stuff like calls for racism, violence, slavery and reduction of privacy. A problem that states "there are too many white people in XY" is in itself racist and leads to solutions that violate the human rights.

I hope this is clear and not too limiting. If you disagree with these rules feel free to post a comment so that we can discuss the issue. As I said in the beginning, go ahead and add problems, it's the only way how we can proceed towards solving them!

Comments

Leave a Reply