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19 May 2002 12:07 pm
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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?

Re: expressing my inner two year old

Date: 20 May 2002 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
is there something about me, beyond my membership in alt.poly, that makes me welcome in your home?

You're someone I like, based on observations over time. I think of you as "good people" as I do the majority of a.p. regulars. But it's not just participation in a.p. that would satisfy my criteria for inviting someone to stop by if they were in town. I need to feel that they're someone I'd like to spend some time visiting with.

I've had a lot of a.p. and a.c. folk visit over the years. But I don't think I could ever bring myself to do something like Starport, because that's just a little too "y'all come" for my preferences.

Re: expressing my inner two year old

Date: 21 May 2002 01:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com
and I guess the mutual community allows said observations, thus making the connection community-based?

Precisely.

I've had many gatherings of net.folks at my house. Even an occassional Callahans type realspace. But I don't like the idea of inviting people on nothing more than the basis of them inhabiting a newsgroup. The ideal of "friends we just haven't met yet" is not always born out in reality.

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