*wry* Yeah, any Ordering adds its own layer of shape to the chaos. And, chaos being chaos, I have to doubt whether that Ordered shape is actually germane. It certainly influences the people who follow a given link-comm to feel as though there's an actual discussion (with people reading each other and responding to each other) going on. And that's dead wrong at least half the time, and there you are with more wank over the implicit assumptions of a unified community that can actually /have/ consensus rules--instead of, as it often is, people from separate communities all thinking/talking based on their own community's rules, which may be very different from each other, all being linked through a third party community (the link-comm) which, of course, has its own rules and may or may not be an actual link (be read) by some of the people talking... yeah.
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Date: 22 Jan 2011 04:19 pm (UTC)