re: #302 LudwigVanQuixote

You are so not reading the sub-context. I like you man… please, no offense, no attack, please just sit this one out.

Nope I’m not :)

Sorry dude. I know more about the way people behave in online communities than you. I ran them. I have run a blog that used to get 100 comments a thread, just like Charles. Built my own graphics for it and everything. had memes, had everything. Had a bit of a culture! That blog got over a thousand comments in a thread in…2004? 2005? When i was depe into my I Wanna Be A Blogger phase. From a fight! A thousand comments in 8 hours!

I’ve been on online communities for over 20 years. Pushing 25, since I got a modem for my Atari as a christmas present from my parents, and figured out through many sleeplessnights of calling every BBS in the back of ComputerUser magazine in Seattle, found all the smart people were hiding on a board called Cave Creek BBS in Seattle. Since it was a novelty. This is my expertise. This is how I make my living. I am part of online communities, I’m an artist that knows these people, and that’s how I make a middle class living. of this ALONE, I make my living. No day job. Just this.

I wouldn’t question you on science. That’s your expertise. This is mine. OH how this is mine.

I won’t engage in any matches with you (and really, i got a LOT of freelance to do, so I’m gonna take off) but I am more firm in my opinion about this than you can possibly understand. You have no dea how wrapped up in internet horseshit I used to be. I’m embarrased to talk about how wrapped up in it I was. it was stupid. Like being an alcoholic. I’ve lived it for so long it’s in my DNA. The patterns are *identical* They’re so similar that it’s like I’m seeing time go in reverse.

And now I’m gone, because my spidey sense senses a storm coming, later folks