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The only internet community that I've ever seen achieve a set of rules that are followed by the community has been somethingawful.com. And while there's lots of
by mabbo 10y ago
The only internet community that I've ever seen achieve a set of rules that are followed by the community has been somethingawful.com. And while there's lots of criticism you can lay on them, they've maintained a culture and community for nearly two decades.
They did this by making accounts to comment cost money, a one-time $10 fee. If you troll, you get banned and you need to pay $10 again to get your account back. It's a simple and brilliant solution- those who are good members of the community pay the least and those who make the community worse pay the most.
- AlexB138 10y agoMost of the early Somethingawful community is long gone, broken into splinter sites that look more like SA did in its early days. It's now populated with people who are ok with the heavy handed mods enforcing their views through bans. It's also a mostly irrelevant site now, when compared to how fundamental it was to early internet culture.
- marchenko 10y agoMetafilter has a similar model, and the community there is fairly orderly and respectful. I have however detected a reduction in ideological diversity over time.