One thing I think I need to communicate to the Carrot Project beta users this fall is that I hope they'll consider trying to turn the website into a bullshit meter.

When we do our initial research, we're going to try to keep our bullshit sensitivity low.  We want to take our agnosticism to a pretty serious level. A level that borders on ignorance maybe. 

And then we want to listen.  We want our users to question things.  Question the gold stars.  Question the experts.  Question us.

Hopefully we can bake some of this culture into the tool itself.  My guess, however, is that we're not going to achieve it unless we get those first few hundred active community members engaged and on the bullshit meter page.