April 30, 2002

  • Feedback

    Feedback is a mechanism whereby the outcome of a process sends signals back to the process and defines how the process should continue. Feedback can be characterized by three types.

    1. Positive feedback: Feedback which causes the process to increase.
    2. Negative feedback: Feedback which causes the process to decrease.
    3. Equilibrium feedback: Feedback which causes the process to remain constant.

    In Xanga, we as bloggers constantly are attuned to the positive feedback--comments, eProps, etc.--and that is natural. 


    Yet within any system where feedback serves importance, there almost always exists components of negative feedback.  And ignoring them can be fatal.


    In fact, in many systems and all  biospheres, ultimate stability depends completely upon natural negative "feedback" mechanisms to insure continuing survival.


    So if positive feedback consists in Xanga of eProps and of supportive comments, should a diminishment of these things as a trend serve too?  And if so, what's the appropriate response?

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