Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Why online communities decay over time Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 09:50:59 -0700 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <20140527151422.9450d545.rsw@therandymon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 236I9kMD9tRUFGS4xBSSwg5uBtw3yxHVKWMQtNcblD+8O2AAN4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ybfvy26TBaMS06nJijNb+Cwu/NY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <20140527151422.9450d545.rsw@therandymon.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:3297 RS Wood wrote: > human beings are by nature antisocial, aggressive, vindictive, petty, > and stupid with limited communication skills: basically, monkeys on > keyboards. That analysis only explains the bad (decayed?) aspect of usenet. But it isn't consistent with the halcyon days of many many dynamic usenet groups or earlier online communities such as GEnie RoundTables or CompuServe forums. Under 'these' conditions, humans interact (very) badly/poorly. Under 'those' conditions, humans interact (very) positively. -- Mike Easter