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I think that situation is very different. Tor nodes operators are running nodes not for Tor users. They are running nodes for idea of free, open Internet. They don't ever socialize with Tor users. Social as in "pro my individual view of society" and social as in "pro my relations with people around me" are two totally different meanings.

Parents interact with daycare staff. Tor relay operators don't interact with Tor users.

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This just isn't true.

I run a relay, and I interact with all sorts of Tor users on irc.oftc.net #tor

In fact, there are lots of relay operators and regular tor users there on IRC, and some of them get pretty chatty.

It's good to interact with and get to know the community you're involved with.

But you could just as easily claim you run a relay and no one would know that you don't.

I also run a relay, and I don't have much contact with the Tor community. I'm not sure that most of the relay operators contribute to the IRC channels or other medias used by the community. There are ~5000 Tor nodes, and I just saw ~450 nicks on #tor - and many of them are probably users and not operators.

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