Comment by auxbuss
14 years ago
Why would anyone engaging in an online community want to partake of an elitist "power structure". Okay, other than power junkies whose world is embedded in this kind of delusional existence.
Most folk don't want that insidious role-playing in real life. Online they can just walk away. So that would be why it doesn't exist.
In the real world, we take these elitist power structures for granted. Corporations, Politics, Churches, PTAs, they all unthinkingly replicate a power structure as they grow.
What's interesting to me is that this same pattern appears not to apply to the web.