I was going for the "someone else said my idea better than I could" but since it IS a comic strip, it's going to be an oversimplification.
And you're quite right that some people DO care about their online reputations, even if there is no conncetion to meat-space. Still, the capability that some random heckler can post stupid shit ("first post", trolling, etc.) means that without some kind of filtering mechanism, you're still going to get this behavior in any population of a large enough size.
Perhaps the social stigma from posting crap on LJ for big feeds is less, because, a) people don't expect insightful commentery without moderation anyway, and b) because the connection between the smaller cliques of which the individual LJ first poster is part and the larger pool of people that view the feed are almost disjoint. Argument a is mostly due to the feed coming well after the comic, so it's original distribution point for many people was not the feed so a culture of commentary couldn't be built up.
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Date: 2007-05-11 02:21 pm (UTC)And you're quite right that some people DO care about their online reputations, even if there is no conncetion to meat-space. Still, the capability that some random heckler can post stupid shit ("first post", trolling, etc.) means that without some kind of filtering mechanism, you're still going to get this behavior in any population of a large enough size.
Perhaps the social stigma from posting crap on LJ for big feeds is less, because, a) people don't expect insightful commentery without moderation anyway, and b) because the connection between the smaller cliques of which the individual LJ first poster is part and the larger pool of people that view the feed are almost disjoint. Argument a is mostly due to the feed coming well after the comic, so it's original distribution point for many people was not the feed so a culture of commentary couldn't be built up.