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Re:Profanity works by paulgb on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @11:09PM (#282295)
Interesting point, but I think the tragedy of the commons is a more fitting analogy than the prisoner's dilemma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

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Re:Profanity works by newt0311 on Thursday August 21, 2008 @09:08AM (#282614)
Tragedy of the commons is a prisoner's dilemma type of situation but is indeed a better analogy here.
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