In a similar vein... (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-04 02:24 (#2S1D) If you enjoyed the Alan Jacobs article, here are some related critiques.Freddie deBoer, a social liberal, on viciousness in online forums:http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/08/21/where-online-social-liberalism-lost-the-script/David Sessions, a social conservative, on the quality on online media:http://www.patrolmag.com/2014/08/25/david-sessions/the-state-of-the-internet-is-awful-and-everybody-knows-it/Pew survey on Social Media and the Spiral of Silence:http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/26/social-media-and-the-spiral-of-silence/Xianhang Zhang on the Evaporative Cooling Effect:http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-evaporative-cooling-effect/Pipedot still has a small number of articles and comments, but the civility and quality we have here are becoming increasingly rare online. Maybe it's not such a bad thing that Pipedot is small and growing slowly. Re: In a similar vein... (Score: 1) by harmless@pipedot.org on 2014-09-04 08:28 (#2S1H) but the civility and quality we have here are becoming increasingly rare online.I happen to disagree. I have refrained from commenting on more than one article because the initial comments were so hostile that I couldn't imagine any useful discussion would come out of it.
Re: In a similar vein... (Score: 1) by harmless@pipedot.org on 2014-09-04 08:28 (#2S1H) but the civility and quality we have here are becoming increasingly rare online.I happen to disagree. I have refrained from commenting on more than one article because the initial comments were so hostile that I couldn't imagine any useful discussion would come out of it.