Real Life Farmville 117
arkenian writes "The BBC reports on a farm in the UK to be run by online subscribers to the MyFarm website voting on which crops to grow and livestock to rear. For a £30 annual fee, 10,000 farm followers will help manage Wimpole Home Farm, in Cambridgeshire. They will be asked to make 12 major monthly decisions during the course of the year as well as other choices. The National Trust says its MyFarm project aims to reconnect people with where their food comes from."
Re:I thought this was a good idea.. (Score:2, Informative)
It is a win-win situation for everyone.
Win? Except for the real-life farm which will go under fast (if not subsidized from, say, education funds)
However, it is crucial that the trolls be weeded out by some means.
You mean: weed-out the un-educated (in the subject of agri-business)? Weed them out and the experiment is pointless.
If social experiments in Facebook, Twitter and Anonymous have shown us anything, it is that the general public likes to participate in making major decisions (which makes then feel important), and are willing for this.
Hell, yeah. I remember a few years back, the White House/UK govt set up some sites for "public participation", meant for the populace to suggest reforms they'd see as high priority. I can't remember now the sites, but I do remember that one of the highest ranked idea in US was "legalize drugs", while the UK suggested to repel the gravitation law.
After that, the economic crisis set in... and Wikileaks inoculated the idea that the "raw data" fed by the "open govt" initiatives may not be that relevant as they'd like us to believe.
Re:My brain... (Score:4, Informative)