Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away: Conclusion

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:
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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.

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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.
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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 :)

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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.