From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon May 31 1999 - 06:25:48 MDT
The curious thing is how deterministic this phenomenon is. From time
to time, guns come up, a flamewar ensues and then lots of threads crop
up about list quality. After a while it all peters out, list quality
goes up for a few months, and then the next flamewar begins. Not
unlike the quiescent - activated - refractive - quiescent cycle of
chemical clocks. It has been going on here for years, and I guess it
is endemic to many lists with sufficiently high volume.
>From a memetic-epidemological point of view, what can we do to break
this loop? Are there memetic solutions other than the traditional
ideas for moderation, banning etc?
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