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Quality #cupcake zoom
Jul. 1st, 2024 01:48 amThe usual suspects of mostly-post Virtual Hammer #cupcake gathered on Zoom, plus Beldorion and later Belovedest. People popped in and out, but the last few of us were in until late-late and Yellface had given up yelling me into bed.
It was interesting to sit down with a virtual beer with a SA goon, though not one who had been there during the earliest of the 2000s; apparently things have mellowed there over time and with, er, attrition. We speculated about our theories on why groups like that started happening around that time. My thought was that the technical barrier to make internet communities had lowered at a certain point, which did two things.
People who got booted out of online communities for bad behavior could create their own private spaces much more easily, without having to rely on having the skillz, gaining the skillz, or playing nice enough to establish a foothold in a new group. At the same time, people in general had more online spaces, providing a target-rich environment for dirty tricks. (And a thing that I hadn't thought of: the rise of search engines meant that dirty tricksters could find each other more easily.)
lb (who was not the goon) provided some of his history as a witness to some of the early IRC shenanigans and japery, which was also fascinating to hear about.
Cat box has been scooped. Dishwasher is humming with a light load. Time for me to sleep, because I've got my shongles shit scheduled for tomorrow!
It was interesting to sit down with a virtual beer with a SA goon, though not one who had been there during the earliest of the 2000s; apparently things have mellowed there over time and with, er, attrition. We speculated about our theories on why groups like that started happening around that time. My thought was that the technical barrier to make internet communities had lowered at a certain point, which did two things.
People who got booted out of online communities for bad behavior could create their own private spaces much more easily, without having to rely on having the skillz, gaining the skillz, or playing nice enough to establish a foothold in a new group. At the same time, people in general had more online spaces, providing a target-rich environment for dirty tricks. (And a thing that I hadn't thought of: the rise of search engines meant that dirty tricksters could find each other more easily.)
lb (who was not the goon) provided some of his history as a witness to some of the early IRC shenanigans and japery, which was also fascinating to hear about.
Cat box has been scooped. Dishwasher is humming with a light load. Time for me to sleep, because I've got my shongles shit scheduled for tomorrow!
