What is a community? How can you tell if you belong to a community? Are there different ways of belonging to a community? What communities do you belong to? Why?
1) A group of people who think they are a community. 2) I have no idea. Like falling in love, you Just Know. 3) Yes. As many as there are people, and then some. 4) Lots, and they overlap and have subsets. 5) As many reasons as communities I belong to. Usually because I want to.
Are other aspects of community-belonging/relating like being in love perhaps? Can you ("one") lose trust in your community, have difficulty communicating with it? Fall out of love? Feel betrayed? I know I can feel "new relationship energy" for a community...
1) Depends on the community. ap/afp/LJ? yeah. My little "African village" domestic setup? Yeah. debian-user, debian-curiosa, bofhnet? Nope.
2) a) Yes b) Yes
3) Yes
4) _Hell_ yes, and how. Owie.
5) NRE - yerrrsssss. But, like with a new relationship, it's after I've got to know it and started to fell "Oh, goodness me, what a good idea" about it. I don't love at first sight much.
Our bit of the discussion about falling in love / NRE solidified my sense of a community as some kind of entity unto itself, something that has feelings/memories/beliefs/actions, and something that can be the subject of others' feelings/memories/beliefs/actions.
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2) I have no idea. Like falling in love, you Just Know.
3) Yes. As many as there are people, and then some.
4) Lots, and they overlap and have subsets.
5) As many reasons as communities I belong to. Usually because I want to.
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Are other aspects of community-belonging/relating like being in love perhaps? Can you ("one") lose trust in your community, have difficulty communicating with it? Fall out of love? Feel betrayed? I know I can feel "new relationship energy" for a community...
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2) a) Yes
b) Yes
3) Yes
4) _Hell_ yes, and how. Owie.
5) NRE - yerrrsssss. But, like with a new relationship, it's after I've got to know it and started to fell "Oh, goodness me, what a good idea" about it. I don't love at first sight much.
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And that was useful. Thanks!