>You didn’t have massive sprawl communities until the investment was there to build systems to keep Nazis and trolls away.
Oh, it kept the trolls and Nazis just fine (even brought some close to power).
What the investment killed was the regular curious / not-for-profit nerd.
Re:What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:34AM
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If suffering more trolls is the price of not sterilizing the things that make humanity interesting then we've made the wrong trade off.
Slashdot really highlighted this for me - if you followed the site and the core forum of founders, dealing with moderation was horrible. The writing of CmdrTaco over the years really made it sound like it just made him miserable.