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.
Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension!
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