discuss/acknowledge/alter behavior that has been upsetting enough to drive numerous good folks from the board.
What IS this behavior, Trudy? I asked before in B'cy and I am not trying to be flip, I actually want to know. I can't see anything more than people disagreeing with each other and voicing their opinions. T Being disagreed with in the articulate way ita or Allyson or you do it can be sometimes uncomfortable (I know it is for me) but that's what happens with open conversation. You don't have to derail Netter to explain--I'll toddle over to B'cy if you want to spell things out. If not, I'll have to remain inthe dark.
Also, speaking as a person who mostly grew up in Reston, Va., pbbbt to Columbia. RESTON is the planniest planned community that was ever planned, and anyone who lives there will tell you so!
Anyone watch the Enterprise finale tonight?
Some discussion over in Boxed Set, JS. (I haven't yet; it's on tape)
Up until recently, it's been unheard of for people's personal interactions to be recorded verbatim and to be kept for all time.
There's about 5 years of The Bronze archived going back to 98 I think. I'm not sure if The Well archives, but it just celebrated its 20 year anniversary as an internet community, so they've been there done that.
If you're really interested, google up the writings of Clay Shirky, he has some fascinating studies on 'net communities. Also, as far as Bitch Cabal goes, google Snacky's Law.
I've been thinking far too much about internet communities lately.
A friend I was talking to about my book asked me if I'd ever consider diving into another community. I tried out The Well and it was just Too Much Work.
I've put too much Self into Buffistas and the Bronze to have to re-explain and rebuild.
Also, I'm certain that Paul will be a Dad JUST LIKE JILLI'S. Which is a scary thought, but funny.
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OMG, you're right. What a terrifying, but hysterical thought. I'm going to giggle about this for hours.
OMG, you're right. What a terrifying, but hysterical thought. I'm going to giggle about this for hours.
It's so very true! He's on record as saying that parents lie to their children all the time, so they might as well make them interesting lies.
Potato rustlers are not far behind a statement like that.
There's about 5 years of The Bronze archived going back to 98 I think. I'm not sure if The Well archives, but it just celebrated its 20 year anniversary as an internet community, so they've been there done that.
There's a scary amount of stuff in the Usenet archives. The only things under my legal name out there are all at least 10/11 years old (I stopped using it online around then), and in said archives or attached to random net petitions/BBS listings from back in the fuckin' day.
I was just thinking the other night about my first experience with a serious sock puppet (I keep meaning to ask my friend who was the sock puppet--this is back in the day of local, single line BBS culture, so sock puppets had an as-of-yet unmatched ability to get down, personal, and dirty, as everyone involved knew each other IRL as well, often in the biblical sense--if he regrets his decision to log in under a different account for the purposes of stirring up shit best left settling in the tank), which was at least 12 years ago.
Occasionally, I wish quartz.rutgers.edu was archived, so I can wince at the memory of myself at 19.
Yeah, I found The Well too much work also. At this point, I'm here, and get digests mailed to me from some usenet and yahoo groups. I almost never even read the digests.
Internet communities ARE an interesting thing, though.
there is a core powerful group who run everything merely by being loud and pushy
HA. The CPGWRE are actually lurkers.
The University of Oregon's history department is a bordello? Clearly I went to the wrong school for a history degree.
Chicken ranch?
Wasn't that what they called the brothel that The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was based on?
If you're really interested, google up the writings of Clay Shirky, he has some fascinating studies on 'net communities. Also, as far as Bitch Cabal goes, google Snacky's Law.
Also, head over to your library and check out Sherry Turkle's book, Life on the Screen.
I've been thinking far too much about internet communities lately.
Ditto. And my summer is going to be wrapped up in more thinking. Yay!
