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Suppose you were the de facto “leader” of a large progressive social network in real life. You have heard frightening accounts from other social networks, where members have damaged the health of the network through antisocial behavior. Sometimes this leads to its destruction. Maybe they redirected all the attention in the group toward their own plight or pet cause; maybe they mistook an occasional unkind word for deep prejudice and tried to alienate members; maybe they become a roommate and stop paying the rent; maybe they make unreasonable demands, ruining the dynamic of the network; maybe they constantly guilt and catastrophize, ruining the enjoyment and fluidity required to motivate social activity. What norms would you put in place to exclude these antisocial individuals from social events and social spaces?
Hard Difficulty:
Can’t use any ideological test
Can’t judge by appearance
Legendary Difficulty:
Can’t judge by speech pattern
Can’t use any explicit social hierarchy, but can only filter or weed out antisocial members through group habits and group norms
Autistic legalism is a popular solution for running ideologically based-groups, for a simple reason- it works.
Now you’d have to convince people that your rules are fair, applies fairly, and important enough to merit shunning violators. But there is a reason it’s the historically tested solution.
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