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Wikipedia
an open computer conference begins with a small number of well-informed and highly interested participants, it soon attracts others. That's all right; it's supposed to attract others. Where else would you get new ideas? But soon it attracts too many, far too many, and some of them are not only ignorant but aggressively misinformed. Dilution takes place. Arguments replace discussions. Tempers are frayed.
The result is that while computer conferencing began by saving time, it starts to eat up all the time it saved and more. Communications come from dozens of sources. Much of it is redundant. Some of it is stupid. The user spends more and more time dealing with irrelevancies. One day the user wakes up, decies the initial euphoria was spurious, and logs off, never to return. This is known as burnout, and it's apparently quite common.
Arguing/disagreement are at all forums. I am on a movie forum and all out battles start over, if a particular movie should be rated a 6 or a 7. (lol) The arguments here dont even compare to movie message boards.
Ken
believe me i know
i used to be a weather nerd
the weather forums were like nuclear war zones over where the heavy bands set up