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by jrochkind1 2838 days ago
Agreeing with you, I guess the weird thing is that it WORKED for 20 years or so!

I'm sure people have written a lot on this. I think some of it is because most people actually _are_ interested in treating each other respectfully, and the internet was smaller, with less opportunities for making money (at one point enforced anti-commercial in fact), and more homogenous (for better or worse).