Onilne communities and exclusivity

[robinturner]

The delightfuly abusive comment I recently received (see previous entry) is making me ask myself questions about the boundaries of online communities. Part of me yearns for the days when you had to be pretty geeky just to get online at all, and would like an online community where you could only read or post if you could fulfill certain criteria, like being able to write a perl or shell script, name more than half of the dwarves in The Hobbit or tell the difference between a quasar and a pulsar. The other part really enjoys the anarchy of the Web, and would like to see more rednecks, teenage übermenschen and Islamic fundamentalists online.

Comments

[katminnaar.livejournal.com]

Or even Christian fundamentalists! Ooooo, are THEY ever fun to taunt and poke at! >:]

Uh... sorry I'm not a total 'net/'puter geek, but I could probably understand the difference between quasar and pulsar (even if I'd have to look it up because I DON'T REMEMBER!). I can name the dwarves once I've read LOTR. :Þ But, no... don't know about perl or shell script.

Boundaries? In here???? ...Didn't know there WAS such a thing. ::she says tongue-in-cheek::

"If you mow and lawn and find a car -- you might be a redneck.
If your porch collapses and kills more than two dogs -- you might be a redneck."
Heh heh.