Comments on: Why Do Communities Attract Rule Makers?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:26:36 +0000

Micah, this is a very insightful and generally cool post!

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:05:10 +0000

This is brilliant, Micah. I am not one for social networking rules. I’m more about communication and compassion and having fun. From there, pretty much anything else goes.

By: Chris Brogan...

Chris Brogan... — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:35:17 +0000

Online communities have a funny way of self-organizing. In a world where we’re all the press, we’re all the button pushers, things seem to normalize a little easier.

Wait, isn’t this why nuclear proliferation made sense?

By: GeekMommy

GeekMommy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:51:22 +0000

*applause*

I worried for about 2 minutes that someone might see my “reasons I’m not following you” post as an attempt to enforce rules rather than an attempt to express my own standards…
and then I stopped worrying, because I remembered that my twitterpals are all sharp folks, and would get the distinction on their own. Not too surprisingly, they did.

I liked the way Shel Israel put it
@geekmommy I don’t tell people how to behave. I think I should tell them how I will disengage if they choose to behave a certain way.

One of the nicer aspects of Twitter is that it seems to appeal more to the intelligent and rational than the stupid and kneejerk reactionaries.
And if the latter show up, we can always just ignore them.

By: John Minnihan

John Minnihan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:27:11 +0000

Very cogent. I had similar thoughts when I saw these “laws” (via a ref from @wilw) but couldn’t be bothered to respond… seemed appropriate to ignore the guy.

Thanks for taking the time to articulate what’s emerging on Twitter, and why this really is a very interesting experiment in ‘community’.