Comment by arjie

Haha, it's funny. I just disagree with you on about every point. I don't think that all the people I find noise are annoying to others. Some of them have 5000+ karma so others find them useful. And I don't want to leave the community so I'm not going to do that.

The community has some loose norms and I'm fine with that being the baseline. I don't want to police the community to strict norms. In fact, I would prefer if society were looser and we lived like in Too Like The Lightning. I can't have that there but I can here so I'm happy for it. The technology affords it.

As for blocking people who are more tolerant than me - that seems fine. Tolerance is not some unalloyed good. There are people who are tolerant of spam and all that and I don't really care for it. They're welcome to it and I'm welcome to mine.

The virtual world affords us a glorious opportunity: we don't have to worry about occupying the same space, and we don't have to worry about broadcast media like voice over air, we can silence and amplify as we see fit. To not use that is to take a skeuomorphic approach to a new parallel world, I think.

I like that I don't need everyone to agree with me that someone belongs or doesn't belong. I can simply edit my user-agent to behave correctly for me and others can do so likewise. Free agents controlling their own experience of the world without impinging on others is great!