It's easy to forget that shunning is as much a part of traditional communities as barn raising. Let peer pressure and mindful hosting reinforce the community ethics, but give your members the option to filter out comments from people who are irreconcilable sources of frustration. Don't give up Williams makes the provocative suggestion that we're conditioned by novels and stories to expect climaxes, denouements, and endings from the medium of text itself. Resist the temptation toward apocalypse. As such perennial sentiments run their course in the places where the old-timers are hanging out and kvetching, the newbies are often having the time of their lives elsewhere in the system.
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