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Someone else is always making the rules. Because we are always only one amongst billions. Why would I expect to make the rules? And many of the rules we hav
by stretchwithme 9y ago
Someone else is always making the rules. Because we are always only one amongst billions. Why would I expect to make the rules?
And many of the rules we have to follow are handed to us by nature.
What matters is what we do within the rules that exist. Which can potentially be a lot if you don't hobble yourself with self-made rules that aren't really valid. The rules in your head are the biggest challenge.
- dannyw 9y agoRules of most groups are, directly or indirectly, decided by the same group. Such as professional associations, your local tabletop gaming group, homeowner associations, or democracies. They’re not perfect, but at least there is a chain of input. For Facebook, that group has opposing motivations to this “community” – its lets and requirement is to exploit this resource, ie your cold hard data. This is not a critique of capitalism – it is an argument that large corporations cannot create communities.
- watwut 9y agoLocal tabletop gaming groups have rules set by store that hosts the meetings. It is not members setting rules, but the place setting rules. Professional association have rules set by few companies with others not having realistic chance to change the rules. In many places, homeowner associations is something you have to be member of, whether you want it or not.
- Lionsion 9y agoIn all those examples of communities, the members have real channels of influence over the rules, they are not merely subject ones handed down by a distant authority. HOAs have boards that members can petition or join, etc.