Schools of thought/perspective

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by DanaC

What tends to happen in online communities is they become to a large extent self regulating.

I agree with this. Even though it is online there are still social norms on the closely knit forums (like the cellar) and even more on smaller forums and ones with a low average age (15 or so). It starts to almost become cultish on some of them.