Flame Out time, an idea whose time has come for WaccoBB

[Zeno Swijtink]

This is from a blog by Daniel Goleman, the science journalist who popularized the concept of Emotional Intelligence, and has been running with it ever since. (His latests book is Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything)

I think this is an idea for WaccoBB. There are too many hotheads with an anger problem on this list, who need some calming-downtime, time to solve a few mind cooling math problems, before they can decide whether they really need to send off that mean, inflammatory response to an almost equally inflammatory message by which they were offended.

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Flame Out
Written on October 14, 2008 – 6:00 am | by Daniel Goleman |
At last there’s a way to cool down before we flame online; those folks at Google have come up with a remedy for emotional hijacks at the keyboard.

A “flame” occurs when we’re a bit agitated – frustrated, anxious, jealous, emotionally desperate – and compose an email, hit “Send” … and regret having sent it.

This happens particularly often online, as I’ve explained in Social Intelligence, because the brain circuitry that kicks in to keep us from embarrassing ourselves while face-to-face on the phone with someone gets no signals online. The result has been called the “disinhibition” effect; what gets disinhibited is our emotional impulses.

The Google software helps by getting us to switch from the hot-tempered amygdala to our cool neocortex before we hit send. It’s a neat little device that requires you do about 45 seconds of math problems before the “send” button will operate. Called “Mail Goggles,” the software operates only late at night and on weekends, when we presumably are most predisposed to sending regrettable messages in the heat of the moment.

As Jon Perlow, the software engineer who developed Goggles explains: “Sometimes I send messages I shouldn’t send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can’t always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we’re launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.

“When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?”

To check out this virtual emotional intelligence enhancer:

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret

[Skook]

Public chat rooms are like water, the conversation tends to seek or settle at the lowest common level.

[Sara S]

Alas, I think that the folks who ought to use this software will be the last ones to see that they should....

This is from a blog by Daniel Goleman, the science journalist who popularized the concept of Emotional Intelligence, and has been running with it ever since. (His latests book is Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything)

I think this is an idea for WaccoBB. There are too many hotheads with an anger problem on this list, who need some calming-downtime, time to solve a few mind cooling math problems, before they can decide whether they really need to send off that mean, inflammatory response to an almost equally inflammatory message by which they were offended.

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Flame Out
Written on October 14, 2008 – 6:00 am | by Daniel Goleman |
At last there’s a way to cool down before we flame online; those folks at Google have come up with a remedy for emotional hijacks at the keyboard.

A “flame” occurs when we’re a bit agitated – frustrated, anxious, jealous, emotionally desperate – and compose an email, hit “Send” … and regret having sent it.

This happens particularly often online, as I’ve explained in Social Intelligence, because the brain circuitry that kicks in to keep us from embarrassing ourselves while face-to-face on the phone with someone gets no signals online. The result has been called the “disinhibition” effect; what gets disinhibited is our emotional impulses.

The Google software helps by getting us to switch from the hot-tempered amygdala to our cool neocortex before we hit send. It’s a neat little device that requires you do about 45 seconds of math problems before the “send” button will operate. Called “Mail Goggles,” the software operates only late at night and on weekends, when we presumably are most predisposed to sending regrettable messages in the heat of the moment.

As Jon Perlow, the software engineer who developed Goggles explains: “Sometimes I send messages I shouldn’t send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can’t always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we’re launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.

“When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?”

To check out this virtual emotional intelligence enhancer:

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret

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I think this is an idea for WaccoBB. There are too many hotheads with an anger problem on this list, who need some calming-downtime, time to solve a few mind cooling math problems, before they can decide whether they really need to send off that mean, inflammatory response to an almost equally inflammatory message by which they were offended.

i thought this usually only happens when the subject is Israel & mid-East Peace. although that thread about Shoplifting at Whole Foods did get a little heated.