http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69366,00.html?tw=rss.TOP
Thought this article might make for good discussion.
The idea of a community is to build a solid group of friendly contributing smurfs. Membership helps to install safe guards systems. This way trolls are prevented from bothering the smurfs.
Some people call the internet the information highway, it should be the mis-information highway to lies and half truths. (is that a book titled I so feel like I ripped it off from somewhere :o )
If they banned internet advertising, 90% of the problems will disappear (including that annoying ad on the side) and then all we'll have to deal with is the occasional trouble maker.