If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)

Re:If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011) by LocalH on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:25AM (#31875116)

The core values would be the entire benefit to the form of communication. The massive decline in classic forums has been a net negative for the Internet. The 2000s forum culture was a lot different from the current state of things, and better in many ways. You didn't have the level of de facto censorship that you see now with the massive centralized communication platforms.

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Re:If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011) by krapp on Saturday June 25, 2022 @10:43AM (#31875696)

>You didn't have the level of de facto censorship that you see now with the massive centralized communication platforms.

I disagree. Not every forum was SA or 4chan, plenty were aggressively moderated. The primary difference between then and now that I see is that, back then, moderation wasn't always considered censorship.

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Re:If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011) by LocalH on Saturday June 25, 2022 @11:14AM (#31875927)

I'm talking about the upper level of modern content moderation, imposed by the platforms themselves. It's the autonomy that is missing nowadays.

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Re:If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011) by sam_lowry_ on Saturday June 25, 2022 @01:57PM (#31877288)

>primary difference between then and now

is that there is little choice and even less variation

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