Well I was on BBSes before that, and I've hung out with random people IRL via message boards who turned out to be very nice. But - I've also seen some of that,

Well I was on BBSes before that, and I've hung out with random people IRL via message boards who turned out to be very nice. But - I've also seen some of that, more recently on discord, and on IRC a few years back. I think that that aspect (trust) is an emergent phenomenon from interacting with a smaller group.