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The problem isn't the occasional disagreement, it's when communities raid each other, since people are much more brazen online than in person. In person, thousa
by kedean 11y ago
The problem isn't the occasional disagreement, it's when communities raid each other, since people are much more brazen online than in person. In person, thousands of atheists would never march into a church during mass and start berating members for their beliefs, but that's very common in unmoderated communities. Moderation solves this issue when you can shard your communities (see reddit), but Twitter is just a global blob. Whose going to moderate it?
- sosuke 11y ago"communities raid each other" I love that image and it makes a clear picture for me. Playing on a PvP server of WoW before any expansions there was no formal PvP game. What spontaneously happened though was the raiding and taking over of the other factions town. Making a mess and disrupting otherwise normal play until everyone got tired and went to sleep. It feels so much more intense (real?) in the social media world though.
- kedean 11y agoI think because it takes so little effort. Even in an MMO, you have to man your character to do anything. On twitter all it takes it for at least one person to be tweeting at a given moment to ruin the other community. Plus, people on WoW would be paying a subscription, people are much more risk averse when they pay. Social media is free, and there's little to lose for most people.
- _0ffh 11y agoBack in the times of the meow wars ( http://xahlee.info/Netiquette_dir/_/meow_wars.html http://xahlee.info/Netiquette_dir/_/meow_wars.html ) people were at least aware of exactly what they were doing...