Cooperation is “gamed” in some ways by pushing people to commit to relationships where most of the value flows away from them and towards you (perhaps with vague promises, or combined with other cooperation gaming techniques). Then, you can “freeride” on their contributions once you’ve locked them into committing. In P2P networks, I contend this coercive attitude is actually increasing as more people gravitate towards sharing ecologies, gifiting cultures, and commons-based approaches. // Attribution is the currency of open and commons based systems. If you are not giving credit and attribution (which usually literally takes seconds to do) you are definitely gaming the system, and destroying the commons where the value you co-opted and subtly represented as your own, was originally freely shared by others. Not giving attribution, and co-opting value discourages future open contribution.
Casa Robino
Shared Hospitality Excavations
