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Re: Todd! Admin and owner
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:17:53 GMT
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SSGORE@saynotospamSUPERONLINE.COM
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> Like I said in the other thread, elitism, and the notion that some people's
> words ought to carry more weight in the contexts where they are known to be
> experts, are, IMHO, good things. As long as the elitism, and the
> acknowledgement of who to listen to, is meritocracy based and not clique
> based, that is.
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> A question, though, and I am not a social scientist and thus am out of my
> depth... Is a certain amount of this sort of sense (that not everyone joins
> immediately and stays forever) actually normal and healthy group dynamics?
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> Does LUGNET as a whole tend to overanalyse itself?
>
> Is THAT question itself symptomatic of overanalysis? :-)
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> I dunno. To a certain extent, as fascinated as I am about communities, I just
> want to build, and talk about what I built and TLC and stuff. Blue train doors
> available in bulk. Whodathunkit?
>
> ++Lar
I'm not a social scientist, too, but I say yes to the first question.
Maybe I take the word elitist as different one, but I can see that we
are at similar points on the subject. I already throw some words on it
(1) but in brief, I believe leadership and popularity of some people
above the others is a natural and healthy thing for any given community,
provided that the leadership and popularity is given naturally.
Selçuk
(1) http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=6658
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