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digg died several months ago when their comments slowly started looking a lot like youtube's

Despite my love for higher level discourse, both YouTube and Digg are doing fine without it. You don't die when the average vocal user is rude online. That's almost the definition of mainstream.

That's exactly right.

Look at World of Warcraft (WOW) vs most other mmog's, the language used by an average WOW user is much more coarse, yet WOW decimates other mmo's for subscription rates.

I think this says something significant about our "society." I think this reveals where our notion of community has gone.

Online communities are nothing like the still vibrant IRL communities. The best of both worlds is when they intersect.

It's been like that for a long time.

It was always like that.

What's with all the one-liners?

It's the diggification of Hacker News.

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