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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by lonelappde on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:12PM (#21846139)
Social exclusion works online -- and did work on usenet, until platform owners disabled it in order to promote engagement/enragement for ad impressions.
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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by pjc50 on Friday December 20, 2019 @03:27PM (#21847120)
Not really - it certainly didn't work against spammers, and the whole thing was entirely unauthenticated.
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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by zarkov99 on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:26PM (#21846284)
A little bit. It was a lot easier to escape exclusion by changing your identity in Usenet compared with the real world so motivated trolls would often do that.
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