Anders Sandberg wrote:
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> The curious thing is how deterministic this phenomenon is. From time
> to time, guns come up, a flamewar ensues and then lots of threads crop
> up about list quality. After a while it all peters out, list quality
> goes up for a few months, and then the next flamewar begins. Not
> unlike the quiescent - activated - refractive - quiescent cycle of
> chemical clocks. It has been going on here for years, and I guess it
> is endemic to many lists with sufficiently high volume.
>
> >From a memetic-epidemological point of view, what can we do to break
> this loop? Are there memetic solutions other than the traditional
> ideas for moderation, banning etc?
>
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