but that might not be /fair/
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all the pre-facebook internet communities i was in operated on norms of "if you suck we'll give you shit for it until you don't, if you never learn we'll just ban you" which seems reasonable
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and the alternative is making elaborate sets of rules and then waiting for the people who suck to do anything that could possibly be narrativized as a violation of the rules and *then* banning them
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you only need rules after like a few hundred/thousand ppl and even then rules aren't necessarily unless you have some sort of Goal
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The main determinant of whether rules are required isn't number, it's heterogeneity. A group of five that has a need to welcome outsiders tends to need some kind of structure.
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That's the toxic thing about the current zeitgeist. Nobody has the guts to assert exclusivity if the excluded aren't at the bottom of the progressive stack.
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