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That is positive, but it's hard to say if that positivity has outweighed the negativity that came after. You're conflating a change in leadership with a defect
by soulofmischief 7y ago
That is positive, but it's hard to say if that positivity has outweighed the negativity that came after.
You're conflating a change in leadership with a defect in the merit of anonymous discourse.
- shadowgovt 7y agoI'm not sure that's conflation. If everyone's anonymous, the only throttle / censorship / regulation / what have you is if the benevolent dictator decides to hit individual posts with the shut-up-stick (or ban IP addresses, which is ham-fisted but sure does temporarily silence someone). A change in leadership has immediate effect on the discourse, and not all anonymous discourse has equal merit (trading pedophilia pornography being an obvious example of discourse that is more or less universally identified as negative merit). So a change in leadership changes the merit of the discourse that leadership wields a shut-up-stick over.
- soulofmischief 7y agoA change in leadership has immediate effect on the discourse This is true for literally all online communities, anonymous communities are no different. Lack of leadership and failure to enforce rules always breaks a community down. So yes, you are indeed conflating these two separate issues.