06-21-2009, 03:58 AM
ham Wrote:I noticed that many times...
it seems almost a curse haunting internet sites...
Gradually cliques band...cliques never attract the best but the worst: deviants, keyboard sociopaths, braggarts and other 'teen chat room' kind of quacks...
Cliques start to operate against non-clique members...membership outside the 'inner circle' grows gradually silent and ultimately leaves.
For a while you may get newcomers who bow down to the clique in order to feel accepted, to hopefully raise to the secret handshakes...
Over time, the game grows more and more tedious, until only few are left behind...sites die a slow death...often outraged prime donne leave the clique and start their own forum...twenty forums with barely no audience in the end...
PFFT!
Ain't that the truth.
Someone starts a board for discussion and when it happens they become thought police and no real discussion takes place. The ones who stay learn to nod their heads in unison. Don't all the nodders wonder why nobody disagrees with them and why those that disagree seem to disappear quickly? When all one sees is an echo of one's own posts, boredom quickly sets in. That's why a site like this that has open discussion blows Degreediscussion out of the water with more viewers albeit with many less members.