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If anyone wants to see real, unedited community in action, just check out your local Usenet groups. There are a few that have survived, but for the most part Usenet is a wasteland.
Look Mags, you don't *want* to get along with Dave, so posting in his section against his wishes was uncivil to begin with. Come on, it's not that hard to recognize where a message area is.
The choice becomes one between allowing Dave to delete your messages, or having his community self-police by creating their own little war with you if they want to maintain their sense of what his community is. Or for them to leave. How is that healthy to the community?
You know, when Nic said that Quality Images would be more interesting than IotD, I felt like that was probably a good benchmark for me to watch, for whether this sort of rules change is in fact productive. There are often quality images in Quality Images, and I've posted a few there myself. But I do feel like IotD is still more interesting than QI, and all that means is that I care about chasing stuff down and sharing it than the rest of you combined.
(I just flashed on Nic's statement as if he were saying it as "We will bury you!" aka Khrushchev yelling at the US in the 50s.)
When IotD improved (IMO) with rules changes, it made me feel like maybe rolling the dice with rules isn't such a bad thing.
Hey, in the end, it's just a message board, right?
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