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Old 07-23-2019, 07:40 PM   #22 (permalink)
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I thought I would just start a thread here warning you all of how nasty people are on sites other than Ecomodder. .... Anybody have any similar stories from other sites?
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News at eleven, amiright?

One can parse [WWW] Internet into news aggregators and social media. The former are less toxic. Social media is poison to the human spirit. The closest thing to a pre-WWW Internet is 4chan.

News aggregators would rank with Slashdot at the top, likely the first, and still with the best moderation system. You can browse and see everything or just the most informative/insightful comments. Fark.com and boingboing.net round out the original three. Digg.com came along and there was a lot of drama that birthed Reddit. Reddit's innovation was that anyone could create a new subreddit.
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