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Community moderation works. This was the overwhelming lesson of the early internet. It works because it mirrors the social interaction of real life, where social groups exclude people who don’t fit in. And it works because it distributes the task of policing the internet to a vast number of volunteers, who provide the free labor of keeping forums fun, because to them maintaining a community is a labor of love. And it works because if you don’t like the forum you’re in — if the mods are being too harsh, or if they’re being too lenient and the community has been taken over by trolls — you just walk away and find another forum. In the words of the great Albert O. Hirschman, you always have the option to use “exit”.
The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented
noahpinion.substack.com
My feeling is that all fiction is both false in the overall factual sense, and also true in terms of being a genuine expression of something that’s intrinsic to the author, and will thus hopefully resonate with the reader. That’s the sort of accuracy to aim for: the larger truth of being the best expression you can create for the particular tale you’re telling. Authenticity in fiction has little to do with veracity, and nor should writers feel shackled to facts.
Any Similarity
Matt Gemmell
The DS Scene has been mired in chaos since its inception. One of the main reasons is that it's taken a very long time for a standardized viable piracy solution to appear, so there has been no real standard for releasing or way of testing releases.
DS Scene - PHWiki
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