vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
The death of responsibilities started with the lack of accountability introduced with social media.
'Flame wars' existed on Usenet - remember that arcane series of newsgroups. At first they coped without intervention or moderation and gradually degraded into a morass of shite unless they were moderated forums. Polite conventions and civilised exchanges of views and information were pushed to one side.
I think that the Society Politics and Culture and, to a lesser degree, the Commuting forums here are modelled on the degraded version of Usenet.
Compare the unmoderated uk.rec.cycling newsgroup with the moderated uk.rec.cycling.moderated
I'm going to have a poke around them to see if there's anyone still there from when i last used them ten or so years ago.
'Flame wars' existed on Usenet - remember that arcane series of newsgroups. At first they coped without intervention or moderation and gradually degraded into a morass of shite unless they were moderated forums. Polite conventions and civilised exchanges of views and information were pushed to one side.
I think that the Society Politics and Culture and, to a lesser degree, the Commuting forums here are modelled on the degraded version of Usenet.
Compare the unmoderated uk.rec.cycling newsgroup with the moderated uk.rec.cycling.moderated
I'm going to have a poke around them to see if there's anyone still there from when i last used them ten or so years ago.