It’s not a consequence of the medium, people, or wild behaviors entering civilized spaces. It is a consequence of Authoritarian Network Modernists analyzing humanity by Seeing Like a Network, in terms of Ideal Users. The 1st example was the Rational Man of market high Modernists
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I meant to write a whole post on this and have a draft sitting around, but like so much of my thinking lately, I stop short of publishing the post because of a sense of “why bother, it won’t make any difference”
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Tldr: reputation mechanisms can’t stop this effect, only trade-off the vitality of open systems against the governability of closed ones (and a reputation system is a closing/governance mechanism). You accept a shorter, but pleasanter lifespan for the community.
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