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> How many users had the talent and time to create original content, and then survive the ridiculous Kuro5shin editing process? Not many. k5 had a diary sectio
by okasaki 11y ago
> How many users had the talent and time to create original content, and then survive the ridiculous Kuro5shin editing process? Not many.
k5 had a diary section where you could publish anything you wanted.
I think the biggest problem with k5 were the annoying "trolls" that were allowed to to shitpost without any restraint whatsoever and eventually overran the whole site.
- pjc50 11y agoThere were (at least) two distinct subfactions of trolls. One were the purely destructive, who'd started out on slashdot posting goatse and gnaa vileness. This faction has basically continued, in spirit if not in personnel, to be the pro-abuse faction wherever things are discussed on the internet. The other faction were people fed up of what they percieved as groupthink, who ran a much more subtle and 'traditional' trolling campaign culminating in the foundation of Adequacy.org . I still refer people to their great general-purpose essay "Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics". http://adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.9.12.102423.271.html http://adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.9.12.102423.271.html
- samth 11y agoFor people who are fans of adequacy, the author of that essay is Daniel Davies, who blogs at Crooked Timber and on Medium, and has an entertaining Twitter feed.