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Sites like these are all about a herd mentality. Maybe you're looking for a forum atmosphere?

• unalone 18y ago
  I'd like something to breach the gap between sites like these and forums. Because... miracles rock.
  • many 18y ago
    Seems like the last time I complained about the trifling point system, I come back and there's no looking down. Idano, boring reading at least keeps me calm.
• jrockway 18y ago
  Every forum I've ever read is even worse than the social news sites. When someone disagrees with you here, they reply with an argument. It may not be a good argument, but at least the reply is related to what they disagree with. On forums, people reply with things like "I bet you wouldn't say that to my face." instead of actually arguing the point. This is completely worthless -- why have a discussion forum if you're not going to disagree? On the Internet, you can argue unrelentingly for your point and not have it count against you socially. In a casual conversation, someone who does nothing but argue their point would be "annoying", but on the Internet, that's not annoying. It's the entire fucking point. (And before the Internet, people wrote op-eds. Rules for conversation and writing are different. So don't ask me if I would say that to your face, because your face isn't here.)
  • krschultz 18y ago
    Find smaller communities, big forums are like that but if you lose the anonymity things get a lot better.
  • thomasmallen 18y ago
    UbuntuForums is one of the best-run forums I've ever used. Not as good now as it was a couple years ago, but it's a good model.
  • unalone 18y ago
    You're exchanging one thing for another. You encourage discard clique mentality for mob rule. Each model has its flaws. And while forums scale worse, I tend to enjoy the sense of community I get there, which is something sites like THESE don't offer well.