It seems more fundamental than reputation. Usenet had tons of problems since I could remember it. Now there were a few shining beacons that were awesome, sci.

It seems more fundamental than reputation. Usenet had tons of problems since I could remember it. Now there were a few shining beacons that were awesome, sci.crypto, comp.compression, some others. There was also tons and tons of noise. There is some number, X, you can’t have a conversation with X+1 people, everything struggles with it.