Hey Mike, thanks for this. That’s actually very clear (as usual – you have a gift for this!), but also indirectly refers to the affective side of things, you talk about “loving” what Ward did, or how annoyed you’d get if someone did x, and how “flattering” something would be.
There is, of course, what you say on your blog: SFW is doing sthg different from the kind of collaborative writing we do now. We just keep discussing it in reference to that because we haven’t yet grasped what it is or can do. “We” being ppl like me, not you or Ward.
Having said that, I think there might always (?) be a need for that collaboration on one final document e.g. To write an academic paper together, co-teach a course, or produce a report at work. In that case, things like penflip (rather than SFW) might suffice in terms of “politeness” in co-editing, right? I guess there’s also all sorts of stuff going on in the background of wikipedia and a lot of emotions flying there as well.
Unless you think SFW might also revolutionize all that stuff, too, in which case, I’d love to hear more from you 🙂