>It turns out that public access forums calibrated for the small and self-selected community of mostly high quality internet pioneers aren't prepared to deal with 1000000x expansion of reachable audience.
"Checklist for new theories purporting to prove that the social web is presently unworkable:"
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26. The predicted conflicts still wouldn't be as bad as Usenet flamewars.
27. Your theory proves that Hackernews does not exist. <---
28. Audiences afraid of engaging with an unfamiliar interfaces weren't making websites in 1998 either.
"Checklist for new theories purporting to prove that the social web is presently unworkable:"
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26. The predicted conflicts still wouldn't be as bad as Usenet flamewars.
27. Your theory proves that Hackernews does not exist. <---
28. Audiences afraid of engaging with an unfamiliar interfaces weren't making websites in 1998 either.
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