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Subject: Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away: Conclusion
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:20:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote at 15:40 this Friday (GMT):
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:30:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote at 00:18 this Friday (GMT):
>>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:54:15 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
>>><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>My third goal is more selfish. I come to CSIPGA because I want to talk
>>>>about games. What can I say; I like video games; it's a big part of my
>>>>life! But you can't have discussion if nobody else is here. Hence my
>>>>drive to boost user- and post-count. 
>>>
>>> Easy solution there, just do a YT video or a FB post or something to
>>> create awareness about it if you want more users to join Usenet.  It's
>>> a be-careful- what-you-wish-for scenario though, it could be another
>>> Eternal September.
>>>
>>> You're right about something though, it really is the last bastion of
>>> free Internet speech.  So creating awareness of it could be considered
>>> a positive contribution to society.  At least until the type of people
>>> who show up make us wish for regulation :)
>>
>>
>>I don't think having a flood of new users would be as bad as another
>>Eternal September scenario, tbh.
>
> It could be a lot worse, social media reach is much greater these days
> than AOL signups.
>
> Plus, don't underestimate the cognitive decline of society.  After the
> pandemic, such a huge portion of the population is now bat-shit-crazy
> (literally perhaps), and the cognitive decline has been fueled by
> social media.
>
> So there are more people and also crazier people, and the trolls are
> everywhere as opposed to a relatively small segment of the population
> that were wanna-be-computer-nerd-hopefuls in the early 90s.  The troll
> of the early 90s was usually an incel that lived in their moms
> basement, but these days the entire world population is well-practiced
> in trolling.


True, but I still think this area will stay as a niche.
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