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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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James Scott’s Seeing Like a State has an exact isomorphism here. Instead of legibilizing broad contexts (like a forest or city), Authoritarian Network Modernists merely legibilize humans into Design Personas and then complain when humans human
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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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What actually “solves” this problem is replacing Authoritarian Network-Modernist visions of the system with a store of social capital generated by commons work. This acts like a fossil fuel energy source. There’s a reason YouTube/FB want to use Wikipedia to clean up its messes
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