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Comment by miss_classified

By now, it should be obvious that your efforts to attenuate the duration of long-running content won't prove to cultivate an increase in the quality of participation.

There are (at least) three aspects of online community participation, that seasoned users are pretty well-versed in:

  1. Archiving, mirroring and back-ups.

  2. Leaked screen captures and scrapes 
     of private direct messaging.

  3. Back-end aggregation of logs and 
     messages, even for supposedly private 
     SMS interactions.
Forget it dude. We all know that whatever signals get placed onto the wire turn out to be spliced through passive beam splitters and land in an open S3 bucket.

The ones that don't? Your girlfriend just screenshots it, and and tweets it out in the open for the world to see anyway. Whoops!

There are no more online subcultures. Only distortions of perception enforced by impulsive, would-be moderators.

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