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    timethief · Member ·

    I believe what Mark has said here makes sense and I don’t believe that anyone has successfully refuted his position as yet https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=7949&page&replies=41#post-53721

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    wank · Member ·

    Mark’s argument relies on both commenter and commentee being nice, mature, rational people who do not rewrite other people’s comments for their own drama-creating purposes and do not run around screaming blue murder if someone does screw with their comments and refuses to own up.

    We’re heading for a million users, many of whom are going to be fairly young. Nice, rational and mature don’t scale. Trust me, I’m a livejournaller ;)

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    timethief · Member ·

    @wank
    I have been mostly reading two kinds of blogs lately. Firstly, penguin blogs. Secondly, techie blogs written by youth.
    I’ll save you the suspense – nice, rational and mature don’t scale when it comes to either category.
    If I had one, I wouldn’t let my kid near a community populated by so many filthy mouthed, tantrum throwing, liars and cheaters.
    As for the second category, well envision blogs written by spotty faced youth who are re-blogging posts from digg and boing-boing, etc. The only interesting thing about them (yawn) is how they go out of their way to espouse how much smarter they think are than anyone over 25 is, while they re-blog the re-invention of the wheel (tubes).
    Perhaps the posts in either kind of blog would be more interesting if they could spell and had a grasp of grammar and puncutation but, what can one expect from semi-literate twitters with electronic toy fetishes?
    Lastly, if “maturity” level can be estimated based on the increased incidence of hostile newbies posting to the support forum then you may have a point that I will have to concede because nice, rational and mature don’t scale there either.
    I’m standing with engtech at this point, although I may change my mind later.
    P.S. I’m not yet a livejournaller yet but who knows what tomorrow may hold. ;)

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