Incentivizing "Kindness": A Positive Speech Code for Wesleyan

Student Lounge College Life
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https://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

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Monitoring and a point system? Sounds like the social credit system China implemented.

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I read the blog post. Then I spent a few minutes thinking about how this was going to go over with the Wesleyan students, how such a system would work, what the Argus editorials were going to be like and whether Roth had lost his mind.

Then I said aha!

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Yeah. (Belated) April Fool! Don’t hate me!

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It was very clever.

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Poe’s law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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Late to the dance:
https://www.gazettenet.com/Campus-reacts-to-fallout-from-Amherst-College-s-Common-Language-Guide-24454833