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In cwru.general Bob Hetzel <beh@blackout.dms.cwru.edu> wrote:

: So, what you're saying is that CWRU should have kept it less accessible
: and maintained a higher level of censorship, with little fiefdoms where one
: (or a small number 5 or less) decided what's appropriate for their individual
: community to view?  

	Yep :-)  That's what community standards are, a community consensus.
I think a balance could have been found between cabal and what we got, which
was no standards.  You could guarantee equality of opportunity to create a
new community if an existing one wasn't to your liking, but never guarantee
that everywhere you'd go on Freenet, it would be exactly the same.  All
Sesame Street is as restrictive as all red-light...

: But let's not ignore that large scale censorship is fraught with problems, too...

	House rules.  Post 'em up front.  Play nice with my toys or out
you go.  If everyone is a little tolerant, everyone can play.


: Censorship issues aside, there's still the main point that I had about it not 
: being slick and graphical.  How many other text based BBS's are heavily used 
: these days?

	Of course Freenet 2003 wouldn't be a text-based BBS!  It should have
begun evolving away from that in 1995, been on the cutting edge of trying to
find an efficienty point-clicky interface.  Then it would have always been
"New and improved!" and provided perpetual bragging rights for the PR
marketroids.  And maybe even some real human interface research might have
come out of it, certainly a lot of users to get feedback from!

	Different values, different priorities, a lot could have been
done with the Freenet concept.  Clearly CWRU wasn't interested.  I'm
sorry that they weren't.

	*Rich*
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