Why shouldn’t work be fun? Why is there an expectation of misery in exchange for living?
Why shouldn’t work be fun? Why is there an expectation of misery in exchange for living?
I think cheddar on top of apple pie is a pretty common thing, but American cheese sounds off.
Gosh! This takes me back! What a great game!
This weekend, I have some plans to finish up my miter saw stand, and do some other "puttering" around my shop. Putting together a list of actions, and their order, to help me keep myself accountable (:
Always welcome! I share my thoughts freely to help! This is a fascinating set of questions, and I can't wait to see what people are sharing.
I also think an interesting question is about how they are formed. The flavor of a forced settlement (prisoner transport) versus an opportunistic settlement (rich resources) is going to influence a lot of the behavioral patterns of the people.
It's kind of the defining line between "community as a product" and "community as a platform." What is offered and provided is a platform for all of us to work together to build and sustain a community. What we're used to is the other type, where there has always been a drive to monetize the experience. It's like the fallacy that content creators owe their audience anything other than the content they've already provided. The people here running and moderating the community have my respect and admiration, because it's not something I'd willingly step into, knowing the unrealistic expectations of most Internet participants.
I'm currently working on a miter saw table, and getting prepped to install/level the casters! 
This is some good news. I don’t have a deep or intelligent comment beyond, “nice.”
I think you hit on one of the key points. Every other time this same pattern has played out, each of those sites becomes a shadow of what they once were, but the continue because (to be blunt) running Internet sites is CHEAP.
Really, it's totally in the category "when you're getting something for free, you're not the audience, but rather the product."
When people failed to buy in very deeply to the tchotchkes to "pay" for Reddit, it was the last gasp of any effort other than wholesaling the dataset to advertisers and anyone willing to pay for the content.
My break from Reddit wasn't driven by any one single act, but rather the continued (and organized) sanitization of the Internet to appease conservative, Christian investors who make demands on the morality of the content of a site.
Starting off my week with a crown on a molar that decided that chewing wasn’t really an activity it wanted to participate in. Heartened by how my team performed on last Friday when I took a day off, and there were some escalations/failures.