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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2442 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Happened to ThatFanficGuy

The gestalt behavior of Hubski's QQers is no different from the gestalt behavior of any social networks' QQers - every criticism is worth six compliments and without robust individual signifiers we have difficulty psychologically regarding "hubski" as a single entity that is either nice or mean to us. When we're frustrated, it's a source of frustration. When we're pleased, it's a source of pleasure. 90% of what we get out of it we get from ourselves because text-based conversation is utterly bereft of the higher-order communications signals that we depend on for context and nuance.

Until we all start hanging out in a room with each other every friday, we're going to experience the slings and arrows that every online community experiences.