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# The mystery of the online community
- URL: https://werd.io/the-mystery-of-the-online-community/
- Published: 2006-08-11T08:43:04.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:16.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

<http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/11/the-mystery-of-the-online-community/>

John C. Dvorak is on the case in PC Magazine, wondering if there’s a hard and fast way to prevent the “fakes and vandals” from ruining online communities. Other systems such as Metafilter are also information-driven, but users generally need to be paid members in order to post. This is an excellent filtering mechanism, to say \[...\]