Cellar as a sociology experiment

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Interesting that you mention Kuro5hin. From first appearances, I would have probably spent much more time there than here, just simply for the fact that they seem to discuss more interesting topics. But i was driven away because they self-police themselves to hell, and if you wander from a set topic, they chew you to bits. Here, i have no problem doing that.

I doubt that Tony is making this into one insane bigass socieology experiment because he has been doing it since at least '95, and even I dont have that kind of patience.

I enjoy not having a "government" set up here, its a small community. Its more like a group of friends (and the entire Ham family) that just talks and posts shit that we find interesting. Beats the living hell out of /. or k5 cause they are flooded with users. You get the feeling you know most of the people you are talking to. Besides, less people means less spam.

Its all good. I think Tony has something going here. Seems to be a real success.