My lessons from running "obama_2008"

[tri_blog]

To abomvubuso:

Hæ! Thank you kindly for the invitation to join your political community, talk_politics, but I don't want to spend much time on LiveJournal any more. You, your wife airiefairie, and your home of Cape Town, S. Africa all look delightful and fascinating! One of my friends from college was a girl from Durban, S. Africa. I also performed the South African national

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[daily_rant]

I think you did a great job--and certainly a thankless one. People on the internet are kind of like people in their cars--they think they can just do things anonymously and not get called out for it. Maybe someone should start a community called "flame wars" or "pissants" or something along those lines to siphon off the folks that just love to bathe themselves in drama!

[tri_blog]

Thank you so much! ;p They already have "stupid_free" and ton of other LJ drama communities.

[abomvubuso]

I dont think such a community would be very popular. I've thought about this sometimes and i realise that people are not attracted to smth which is allowed - in this case, flaming. They'd rather attempt flaming a community with some rules, than one without such. At least thats my impression from RL.

People get turned on by the forbidden.

As for thematically formed communities...

[abomvubuso]

...i think the above-mentioned airiefairie has said it well here http://airiefairie.livejournal.com/98773.html

I also have no problem with people who are interested in politics but I do not like how it always boils down to crossing sabres with someone else's established premises, as a friend interestingly put it recently. Without being able to put a dent on them. And then retreating back to one's safe haven, the personal LJ and then ranting about it and garnering support from like-minded people calling themselves your friends just because they share one's particular bigotries.

...and...

And other communities which consist of people sharing the same political views are even worse...they look like echo chambers where your own echo is amplified by the others. I prefer not to sacrifice my positivism for the sake of someone else's gusto.

Really makes you think.

[tri_blog]

Unfortunately, look at LJ communities like "stupid_free." Thousands of members and very popular.

[abomvubuso]

I dont usually waste my time staying around morons for too long, but i may have a look :)