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comment by Isherwood
Isherwood  ·  3151 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Affinity, anonymity and parameter mismatch: a Hubski hypothesis

I say it kline-blue.

I think all your suggestions are interesting, and I think some of them should probably be tried, but my gut reaction is that none of them will work.

For the people who are here now, they will be an interesting change that will eventually become standard. For new people they'll simply be the way the site always was. Those new people will set up their profiles on the first day, because tweaking fonts is less scary than talking to people, then never think about it again. How many people regularly edit or updated their bios?

I think there are answers in the technology, but the only thing that will actually keep the site on course as a place full of humans are the humans that fill it.

You're an abrasive man. You've shown that to me and a hundred others who came here thinking they were speaking into the void. It wasn't some design or some code that showed me that people lived here, it was the fact that the people talked to me. They weren't gentle, I wasn't slowly lowered into it, they interacted with me as they were and that's what set the tone.