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Leaders vs. Rulers
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lugnet.people
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Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:37:51 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> Personally, I think that the notion that a major message board can
> remain friendly is naïve at best. A "message board" like LUGNET is
> the juxtaposition of people of many cultures, ages, interests, as well
> as different levels of experience with electronic messages. This
> situation is bound to bring up misunderstandings and noise from time
> to time. In my experience, any message board or mailing list which
> comprises more than just people who know each other well, does get
> noisy from time to time. It is only to be expected.
excellent point
> With the size and growth of LUGNET, I think that a handful of people
> cannot lead the whole of LUGNET by themselves. Using the "community"
> metaphor, I think it is perfectly ok for people other then the
> uniformed police to gently lead people when they do something wrong.
also excellent,
in fact communities RELY on members to not only self-police
but to co-police each other. Think about any football game
when an athlete gets angry and the other guys help calm him
down.
no one wants to see an eruption ;-)
but as a side note,
communities benefit GREATLY from visible and effective leadership.
I think you are confusing "Leaders" with "Rulers".
Rulers, on the whole, are useless.
Leaders can be inspiring and visionary,
and great fun at parties.
-paul
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| (...) Personally, I think that the notion that a major message board can remain friendly is naïve at best. A "message board" like LUGNET is the juxtaposition of people of many cultures, ages, interests, as well as different levels of experience with (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.people)
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