Re:Too many people have peed in the pool
by Kalium on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:13PM
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I'd go so far as to say that attacking someone else's tribe and poison their territory is one of the stronger ways to signal tribal membership.
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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool
by CWuestefeld on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:20PM
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Sure - but the signal can only be heard from within your in-group's discussion. So they'll generally flock together taking potshots at the outgroup from afar. There are of course cases of drive-bys, but that's harder to organize and rarer.