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Bores: Threat or Menace?
Monday, May 25th, 2009 09:02 amhttp://blackbeardblog.tumblr.com/post/111468330/online-communities-fight-the-real-enemy
This entry posits that bores are the real menace to online communities, not trolls. The problem is, though, who is a bore is subjective: who decides what is an interesting idea?
Then, does it then become a problem of 'read the FAQ, gdmnit' or 'not liking the atmosphere, but not having anything to complain about because they're all legit posts'? Maybe the solution is to turn everything into a social network, and then bores may be safely sequestered and form their own subgroups of boringness.
Maybe another solution is to become so provocative that everyone is forced to say something interesting.
This entry posits that bores are the real menace to online communities, not trolls. The problem is, though, who is a bore is subjective: who decides what is an interesting idea?
Then, does it then become a problem of 'read the FAQ, gdmnit' or 'not liking the atmosphere, but not having anything to complain about because they're all legit posts'? Maybe the solution is to turn everything into a social network, and then bores may be safely sequestered and form their own subgroups of boringness.
Maybe another solution is to become so provocative that everyone is forced to say something interesting.
