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What criteria would you use? I've met a lot of stupid people with education from well-regarded institutions and a lot of sharp people with no education past K-1

• indigochill 6y ago
  Just make it deliberately inconvenient for normal schlubs to use. CLI-only BBSes for life.
  • A4ET8a8uTh0 6y ago
    I know you are making a joke, but a barrier of entry is definitely part of the equation here. Right now, a good portion of the web development seems focused on removing friction as much as possible.
    • TheRealDunkirk 6y ago
      USENET, with a proper client, sat on a wonderful local maxima for usability and usefulness, and technical complexity to weed out the riff-raff. I miss those days.
      • rs23296008n1 6y ago
        Now I know why the gopher / gemini project exists.
• HeadsUpHigh 6y ago
  I used to play on an adult only whitelisted minecraft server. It was setup in such a way that day-to-day gameplay was as close to pure vanilla survival as possible. Of course the adult part is really hard to enforce so the owner took a very interesting approach to it. Anyone could join the server but you would be put in spectator mode i.e. be unable to interact with anything but just tour the builds. Then you'd have to make an application that would be manually approved between 24-48h later. Just that delay was enough to weed out the impatient. See the problem was not about the age specifically but rather childish behavior. So by realizing that we targeted the most obvious one( being impatient) and had great results. So yea, making something deliberately harder to use might be just enough.