Oh MAN, I just finished reading about the Activist Bitch Fun Cabal. It's amazing how little I posted in that discussion (shocking because I remember it pretty clearly) like maybe 10 times. Hee hee....

Going to look up Gang of 14 next.

For the record, I think Plei is the one who coined Gang of Fourteen.

To my shame, yes.

Full disclosure: I was #15.

I wish I could remember what number I was! I'm actually looking for those stats.

And of course it was Go14 if you were 15!!

I'm not sure I actually knew I was #15 at the time. (I'm pretty sure I didn't, and thus felt sheepish when I found out I was THAT CLOSE to being one of the 14 people making whatever percent of the posts or something.)

You were a Go14 member at heart. It's okay.

I think I'm going to buy Noah a Violin for his birthday.

I can't resist going back to old Bureaucrazies. It's cracktastic.

Cash, that is SO TRUE (Also, I have the book boxed and it's in my car.... I SWEAR we are going to the post office this weekend!)

Proud Member of the Go14.

I wish I remember the research article about internet communities that talked about a lot of the stuff we dealt with. The thing that sticks in my mind is that at a certain point you had to codify some kind of disciplinary process or inevitably a troll type person would take down/divide the whole board.

And I remember how difficult it was for us to move from bullshit consensus to voting but that it was ultimately worth it.

It's funny how we worried so much about voting and we hardly vote about anything anymore.

But there was a deep concern that thread proliferation would split the community. And I well remember the days on WX when I read every thread without skipping.

And now there's so much discussion on the various show threads that I never engage with.

Do you mean the Clay Shirky article, Hec?