Subj : Re: Back at it
To   : Abbub
From : Adept
Date : Mon May 01 2023 18:58:52

 Ab> in both cases it wasn't quite the same as it is today. Anyway, I'd much
 Ab> rather be in charge of having to figure out how to moderate 35 million
 Ab> people than 3 billion people.

Yeah, and likely the smaller groups are more homogeneous, and therefore perhaps easier to moderate.

 Ab> In any event, without getting political, I suspect that the real answer
 Ab> is that people had more of a veneer of civility about them 30 years ago.
 Ab> Sure you had trolls, but to the bulk of the population being a troll was
 Ab> socially unacceptable. I'm not sure that the same is true today.

There are probably a variety of things that impact it, not the least of which is that everyone got used to the internet, and everyone started being able to minmax whatever they were doing.

Well, I'm sure people were minmaxing from the very beginning, but new tech means people hadn't quite figured it out.

And, sure, probably the populations have changed a bit, but, yeah, rather not go down the road of a "kids these days" or "darn older people" or whatever.

But hopefully we find a way forward. And maybe a few people can find their way back, to our version of social media with BBSs.

Not that that's a panacea against all negative things, of course.

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