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There is an agreed goal. See the tour:

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about electronics design.

The problem is that the way to get to this goal isn't clear. Theoretically it's a nice idea to deduce a 'correct attitude' from the goal, but in reality this is way too complex to even begin with.

Imagine yourself in a team writing an encyclopedia on a specific subject. Team members can add subjects and provide information to subjects. Does this set-up imply any attitude towards team members, other than the general 'be nice'?

I'm sorry to give you my personal opinion, but I don't think you're looking at this from the right perspective. Although you might see the quote from the tour as a premise.

There is an agreed goal. See the tour:

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about electronics design.

The problem is that the way to get to this goal isn't clear. Theoretically it's a nice idea to deduce a 'correct attitude' from the goal, but in reality this is way too complex to even begin with.

Imagine yourself in a team writing an encyclopedia on a specific subject. Team members can add subjects and provide information to subjects. Does this set-up imply any attitude towards team members, other than the general 'be nice'?

I'm sorry to give you my personal opinion, but I don't think you're looking at this from the right perspective. Although you might see the quote from the tour as a premise.

There is an agreed goal. See the tour:

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about electronics design.

The problem is that the way to get to this goal isn't clear. Theoretically it's a nice idea to deduce a 'correct attitude' from the goal, but in reality this is way too complex to even begin with.

Imagine yourself in a team writing an encyclopedia on a specific subject. Team members can add subjects and provide information to subjects. Does this set-up imply any attitude towards team members, other than the general 'be nice'?

I'm not interested in your opinions so don't offer them. I'm interested in your premises and the logically verifiable end result that stems from those premises.

I'm sorry to give you my personal opinion, but I don't think you're looking at this from the right perspective. Although you might see the quote from the tour as a premise.

Step back and look at the premises you gave as an example: help the most people, guarantee the site's continuity, etc. Does any of those give you a clear-cut logically deducable set of behaviour guidelines? No. Even though SE is a system, you're dealing with humans here.

There is an agreed goal. See the tour:

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about electronics design.

The problem is that the way to get to this goal isn't clear. Theoretically it's a nice idea to deduce a 'correct attitude' from the goal, but in reality this is way too complex to even begin with.

Imagine yourself in a team writing an encyclopedia on a specific subject. Team members can add subjects and provide information to subjects. Does this set-up imply any attitude towards team members, other than the general 'be nice'?

I'm sorry to give you my personal opinion, but I don't think you're looking at this from the right perspective. Although you might see the quote from the tour as a premise.

There is an agreed goal. See the tour:

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about electronics design.

The problem is that the way to get to this goal isn't clear. Theoretically it's a nice idea to deduce a 'correct attitude' from the goal, but in reality this is way too complex to even begin with.

Imagine yourself in a team writing an encyclopedia on a specific subject. Team members can add subjects and provide information to subjects. Does this set-up imply any attitude towards team members, other than the general 'be nice'?

I'm not interested in your opinions so don't offer them. I'm interested in your premises and the logically verifiable end result that stems from those premises.

I'm sorry to give you my personal opinion, but I don't think you're looking at this from the right perspective. Although you might see the quote from the tour as a premise.

There is an agreed goal. See the tour:

Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about electronics design.

The problem is that the way to get to this goal isn't clear. Theoretically it's a nice idea to deduce a 'correct attitude' from the goal, but in reality this is way too complex to even begin with.

Imagine yourself in a team writing an encyclopedia on a specific subject. Team members can add subjects and provide information to subjects. Does this set-up imply any attitude towards team members, other than the general 'be nice'?

I'm not interested in your opinions so don't offer them. I'm interested in your premises and the logically verifiable end result that stems from those premises.

I'm sorry to give you my personal opinion, but I don't think you're looking at this from the right perspective. Although you might see the quote from the tour as a premise.

Step back and look at the premises you gave as an example: help the most people, guarantee the site's continuity, etc. Does any of those give you a clear-cut logically deducable set of behaviour guidelines? No. Even though SE is a system, you're dealing with humans here.