although that kind of fell away a bit at the end and people's individual agendas took over - a pretty common problem for "mature" online communities).
Yeah, and it takes a lot to steer people back in. The thing I love about one of the communities I still go to is that the same sort of thing happened, but we worked to reign people back in. However, it takes a lot of investment and the right people to do that, and sometimes that doesn't happen - especially if the admins or mods have moved on, which is often the case. A lot of the mods/admins at the community I mentioned are middle aged or older - this IS their thing now. It can be a different story when the admins/mods were in their teens or twenties when they started and have different lives towards the end. Not to mention that this board is a little less dependent on the "fan" in "fandom" than SQ was. There's a LOT of meta - in fact, really it's 80% meta. But the spirit of the fandom is still there, if that makes sense?
Can I use this post for this 500 page book about social media I have coming out soon?
Suddenly I feel bad about that comment - but you know you're not who I meant, right? :) I meant people who dissect internet culture they really know nothing about like we're weird alien specimen, complete with inaccurate facts and/or the most outlandish examples. Anyway, because I know yours won't be like that, I'd be more than happy to let you use it! :)
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Date: 2012-09-24 01:32 pm (UTC)Yeah, and it takes a lot to steer people back in. The thing I love about one of the communities I still go to is that the same sort of thing happened, but we worked to reign people back in. However, it takes a lot of investment and the right people to do that, and sometimes that doesn't happen - especially if the admins or mods have moved on, which is often the case. A lot of the mods/admins at the community I mentioned are middle aged or older - this IS their thing now. It can be a different story when the admins/mods were in their teens or twenties when they started and have different lives towards the end. Not to mention that this board is a little less dependent on the "fan" in "fandom" than SQ was. There's a LOT of meta - in fact, really it's 80% meta. But the spirit of the fandom is still there, if that makes sense?
Can I use this post for this 500 page book about social media I have coming out soon?
Suddenly I feel bad about that comment - but you know you're not who I meant, right? :) I meant people who dissect internet culture they really know nothing about like we're weird alien specimen, complete with inaccurate facts and/or the most outlandish examples. Anyway, because I know yours won't be like that, I'd be more than happy to let you use it! :)