• Lucytorial said on Jan 27, 2008....

  Kind of, it depends how often you are on here, I have a busy life and tend not to be able to be here all day and/or night, I also live in a very different time zone, the cliques arise because of similar interests and time zones, a lot of the time I think it really is just about how much time you spend on here, theres stacks of people and getting to know them takes time so do conversations.
  
  

• silverwhisper said on Jan 28, 2008....

  the soulcast account once observed that they view SC as a whole bunch of small, overlapping communities rather than a single one. while i suppose that there's some justice there--rather like how within a single city there are a bunch of neighborhoods--calling these small communities "cliques" is obviously an attempt to suggest that they're insular and in some measure, exclusive.
  
  i don't believe that's the case.
  
  ed

• Lucytorial said on Jan 28, 2008....

  Silver, you are forgetting the mass rule here, if you do not profess with the masses/clique then really there isn't a lot of space to move in is there?
  
  I do agree with the analogy of a large city within that the smaller neighbourhoods where many congregate, once again though if your views are not those of the masses its the outer edge in many ways.. conversations stop in general when a person perspective varies from the general consensus.
  More often than not those that are on the outer edges find their own small communities here and are in general ignored by the masses.
  

• silverwhisper said on Jan 29, 2008....

  i disagree, and in fact, sean's actually a great example of how not true that is, to my way of thinking.
  
  sean's got a good number of subscribers but is almost invariably contrarian. look at his blog entry, "do some women deserve to be raped". a lot of people stopped reading sean after that, which is unfortunate b/c sean's MO is almost textbook devil's advocate, if you ask me.
  
  the thing is that we're all of us here for different reasons. sure, we're mostly here for the community--and that's one reason i love this place--but also b/c there are tons of different things we wanna talk about. my interests, like sean's, are all over the map, whereas others, like bloc, are very tightly focused. so we all associate w/ different groups, many of which don't overlap meaningfully.
  
  my point here is that every community is "the masses".
  
  are some soulcasters harder to miss than others? absolutely, that's actually demonstrable in any number of ways, including frequency of hitting featured posts list, # of comments made, etc. but just b/c someone is hard to miss doesn't give that person any more of a voice here than anybody else, b/c we all have the same tools available to us: blog entries & comments. and that's ultimately all that we have.
  
  ed

• lfbno7 said on Feb 16, 2008....

  Stop putting insulting tags on my posts, shithead.

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