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 krapp on Saturday June 25, 2022 @10:35AM (#31875627)

>Is "absence of monetization" a value?

If capitalism is a value, then anti-capitalism is also a value. A lot of people believe the presence of capitalism on the web is fundamentally antithetical to what they see as its fundamentally anarchist/anti-establishment ethos.

Besides, the cost per month of running a small forum nowadays is less than what many people here spend on a single lunch. Not everyone is running a business or a startup.

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Re:If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011) by caracustard on Saturday June 25, 2022 @11:37AM (#31876090)

Ah, the fundamentally anarchist/anti-establishment ethos of millions of computers connected to each other (making a coordinated and organized establishment of their own with hierarchical substructures).

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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 @01:54PM (#31877262)

>anti-capitalism is also a value

Say it with me: communism.

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Re:If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011) by krapp on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:23PM (#31877498)

Say it with me: anti-capitalist philosophies besides communism exist.

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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 @02:49PM (#31877679)

Communism is such an overloaded word that baseline communism as defined by David Graeber is probably a better antonym to capitalism.

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