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Twenty thousand posts under the SE(++), or, Emergent group dynamics in online communities

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    UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    I am arguing that if someone is capable of using the internet, they are aware enough to realize child porn may be on the public forum they converse with people on.

    how does this argument lead to "condemning the institution and library goers"?

    Ubik on
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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited February 2012
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    Like child porn as an eventuality of that site's size is the basest form of cyber-apologism I have seen

    I think you are misinterpreting my position; I certainly don't believe that being large somehow excuses trafficking in child pornography! My observation is merely a factual one, in the same way that observing shooting in the head leads to death is not an attempt to excuse murder.

    Tossrock on
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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    whether or not child porn or jailbait forums is an eventuality of something that size is besides the point, the conditions for that were fostered by staff inaction, and the overall community's inaction.

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    That was in response to ubik. Damn mobile phones

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Everyone on the internet is terrible

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    Yeah holy shit

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Everyone on the internet is terrible

    I mean basically yeah

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Oddly this reminds me of the Catholic Church molestation cases. It's not only the action of those involved, but the lack of action by figures in authority.

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote:
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Everyone on the internet is terrible

    I mean basically yeah

    that's why I upgraded to internet2, the sequel to the internet

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    I use internetcube

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    I am arguing that if someone is capable of using the internet, they are aware enough to realize child porn may be on the public forum they converse with people on.

    and yet, people could be exchanging suggestive pictures of children in Critical Failures right now and I wouldn't have any idea because I never go in there.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote:
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Everyone on the internet is terrible

    I mean basically yeah

    that's why I upgraded to internet2, the sequel to the internet

    they got titties on that one yet?

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Rolo wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote:
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Everyone on the internet is terrible

    I mean basically yeah

    that's why I upgraded to internet2, the sequel to the internet

    Internet2 is lame, the outernet is where it's at

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    EndEnd Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I use internetcube

    is internetcube anything like timecube?

    I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Rolo wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote:
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Everyone on the internet is terrible

    I mean basically yeah

    that's why I upgraded to internet2, the sequel to the internet

    Internet2 is lame, the outernet is where it's at

    Nah man, it's all about the Unternet

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    I am arguing that if someone is capable of using the internet, they are aware enough to realize child porn may be on the public forum they converse with people on.

    and yet, people could be exchanging suggestive pictures of children in Critical Failures right now and I wouldn't have any idea because I never go in there.

    That is in fact all they do. They just roll dice before posting.

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    nobody would mention it. Critical failure's public jailbait threads and its jailbait sub thread

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    JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    nobody would mention it. Critical failure's public jailbait threads and its jailbait sub thread

    They roll 1d8. The result +10 is the age they post!

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    that are publically viewable. Nobody would get known for requesting or privately exhanging those images

    are we going to...you know what, fuck it

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    the first rule of tabletop pedo games is you don't talk about tabletop pedo games

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    I'm glad the golden edict exists

    the only time I hate it is when I want to be meaner than I should

    and it stops me

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Skull Man wrote: »
    I'm glad the golden edict exists

    the only time I hate it is when I want to be meaner than I should

    and it stops me

    Yeah it's a good rule

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    AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Everyone on the internet is terrible

    What are you talking abo

    http://kotaku.com/5888677/how-i-achieved-greatness-on-a-sonic-the-hedgehog+themed-bed

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Well. At least the people in the comments seems to hate it?

    But who the fuck would comment on a kotaku article.

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    if it helps i hated reddit waaay before the pedo thing

    mensch-o-matic on
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    SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    isn't that what we are doing right now

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    heads up thread if i get mad about bronies again im probably headed straight here

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Seriously wrote: »
    isn't that what we are doing right now

    Yeah, but underground

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Everyone on the internet is terrible

    What are you talking abo

    http://kotaku.com/5888677/how-i-achieved-greatness-on-a-sonic-the-hedgehog+themed-bed

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    was about to point out that nerd hierarchys are so 2thousandandlate but then i actually read the first paragraph

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    One of my cousins is a "brony"

    also a vocal Republican, gun lover, hippie hater and serves in the Army

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Tossrock wrote: »
    One of my cousins is a "brony"

    also a vocal Republican, gun lover, hippie hater and serves in the Army

    It...huh. So does...is there like a Republican brony club? I guess I really do not have a grasp on the adult My Little Pony viewer demographic. I mean I would've assumed liberal nerds.

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    being a brony is subversive and actually very feminist now excuse me while i make an ableist horse my mascot

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    oh and he loves anime and wants to find a Japanese wife

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    There is a lot of shit I apparantly do not know about My Little Pony and the people who watch it and I find that surprising, I am usually pretty much on top of what is stupid and upsetting on the internet.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    the MLP fandom seems like it is having a contest with the Sonic fandom to see who can be the creepiest

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Tossrock wrote:
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Everyone on the internet is terrible

    What are you talking abo

    http://kotaku.com/5888677/how-i-achieved-greatness-on-a-sonic-the-hedgehog+themed-bed

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    even for kotaku this is just

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    HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    It's interesting that the idea of a persistent internet identity has come up a few times in this thread.

    I have in recent years gone out of my way to avoid establishing such an identity. I prefer disparate identities on disparate sites, separate accounts, peculiar handles and usernames- connected thematically, perhaps, but not the same identity used everywhere. Any time I see the option to "log in with your Facebook account" I avoid it. It has become a goal of mine to keep my internet communities separate. This is partly because I like to explore different facets of my social personality in different settings.

    It is also because I've become kind of paranoid about collected user information. I'm sure Google or the CIA can gather plenty of information about me, no matter what I do, but I don't want it to be easy. I specifically want to avoid becoming a whole person online. I'd rather become parts of persons in different places, as necessity dictates.

    I don't wanna kill anybody. I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.
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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Harrier wrote:
    It's interesting that the idea of a persistent internet identity has come up a few times in this thread.

    I have in recent years gone out of my way to avoid establishing such an identity. I prefer disparate identities on disparate sites, separate accounts, peculiar handles and usernames- connected thematically, perhaps, but not the same identity used everywhere. Any time I see the option to "log in with your Facebook account" I avoid it. It has become a goal of mine to keep my internet communities separate. This is partly because I like to explore different facets of my social personality in different settings.

    It is also because I've become kind of paranoid about collected user information. I'm sure Google or the CIA can gather plenty of information about me, no matter what I do, but I don't want it to be easy. I specifically want to avoid becoming a whole person online. I'd rather become parts of persons in different places, as necessity dictates.

    whatever you say

    george f anderson of 32 Bellevue Court, Lakeport MA

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    look if someone wants to waste their time collecting information about me they are welcome to

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