On 6/6/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And so we end up with... well, groups of people who
just appear to
inhabit a different project, who came here thinking this was an
experiment in online democracy or a neat social-networking site or a
place to strike a blow against The Man, *and were never convinced
otherwise*. By the time any group of different initial assumptions has
grown large and old enough it looks like the old guard to new users,
then the project's governance and culture is heading in interesting
directions.
Well, by the time I came along there was definitely a defusion of
governance. But I also observed a lot of more or less isolated groups
owning various topics. Or in other words, it looks like an experiment
in online tribalism and oligarchy, with the various policy discussions
filling in for the League of Nations.