Comments on: How many weeks does it take the scum to show up on a social medium? http://walt.lishost.org/2007/05/how-many-weeks-does-it-take-the-scum-to-show-up-on-a-social-medium/ The library voice of the radical middle. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2007/05/how-many-weeks-does-it-take-the-scum-to-show-up-on-a-social-medium/comment-page-1/#comment-28597 walt Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:59:51 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=560#comment-28597 The gated community analogy seemed like a natural. We currently live in an actual neighborhood--one where we're acquainted with most of the people on our one-block street, we have the occasional block party, people go for walks...all that good stuff. It's absolutely not gated. We're not even on a cul-de-sac; that one block is one side of a wide semicircle that defines the neighborhood but doesn't restrict access. So I think about real-world analogies to virtual spaces. (By the way, when there is a block party--usually a potluck in one of the driveways--the invitation, on this block full of Silicon Valley high-tech workers, is delivered door-to-door in paper form. We do not have a "virtual block.") What happened yesterday just made me think of a real-world analogy, and why gates might be natural results. In this case, a password serves as a gate of sorts. Too bad it's needed. The gated community analogy seemed like a natural. We currently live in an actual neighborhood–one where we’re acquainted with most of the people on our one-block street, we have the occasional block party, people go for walks…all that good stuff. It’s absolutely not gated. We’re not even on a cul-de-sac; that one block is one side of a wide semicircle that defines the neighborhood but doesn’t restrict access. So I think about real-world analogies to virtual spaces. (By the way, when there is a block party–usually a potluck in one of the driveways–the invitation, on this block full of Silicon Valley high-tech workers, is delivered door-to-door in paper form. We do not have a “virtual block.”)

What happened yesterday just made me think of a real-world analogy, and why gates might be natural results. In this case, a password serves as a gate of sorts. Too bad it’s needed.

]]> By: Jenn http://walt.lishost.org/2007/05/how-many-weeks-does-it-take-the-scum-to-show-up-on-a-social-medium/comment-page-1/#comment-28596 Jenn Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:06:28 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=560#comment-28596 This would be one of the main reasons no one chats on Yahoo! Games anymore. We used to have silly conversations and pleas for help show up during games like Spelldown. But those solitaire games were hit by the same script a few years ago, and apparently Yahoo decided not to create the gated community. The result was the sound of silence. Few leave the chat enabled anymore. This would be one of the main reasons no one chats on Yahoo! Games anymore. We used to have silly conversations and pleas for help show up during games like Spelldown. But those solitaire games were hit by the same script a few years ago, and apparently Yahoo decided not to create the gated community. The result was the sound of silence. Few leave the chat enabled anymore.

]]> By: jennimi http://walt.lishost.org/2007/05/how-many-weeks-does-it-take-the-scum-to-show-up-on-a-social-medium/comment-page-1/#comment-28595 jennimi Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:16:45 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=560#comment-28595 Walt, I love your gated community analogy! Walt, I love your gated community analogy!

]]>