Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal with Foxconn

Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by iainmerrick on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:23AM (#26902439)

Any discussion forum that grows gets worse.

Huh! I hadn’t thought about it in such stark terms before, and I’d like to disagree, but there may be something in that.

Is that an original thought, or did you get it from somewhere? It sounds like something that should be an eponymous law.

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Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by CydeWeys on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:30AM (#26902503)

Eternal September.

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Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by iainmerrick on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:18AM (#26903037)

Ah, yes! But that applied to the internet as a whole, rather than individual forums.

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Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by CydeWeys on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:46AM (#26904087)

It does apply to specific discussion venues. Originally it was about Usenet groups, not the Internet as a whole. It applies broadly to any forum-like venue.

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Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by Semaphor on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:26AM (#26903106)

While it’s similar to Eternal September, it’s not exactly the same. It’s more that the more users there are, the more average things become. And I have a pretty low opinion of the average person.

It’s very visible on Reddit. Large subreddits have either very strict moderation, or they are low quality (I’m excepting picture subs here because they work differently)

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