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# How to ruin a community in 3 easy steps
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Caleb James DeLisle
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This is less a presentation than a wild tale of trying to keep the Hyperboria network a cool and
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friendly place for all kinds of people, especially women and minorities who don't have so many cool
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places to go on the internet. I failed hard. I tried to keep an open atmosphere for free exploration
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of ideas but ended up with a community infested with nazis and misogynists. Along the way I learned
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that tolerance is not necessarily a good thing, that no amount of rules can beat actually knowing
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the people you hang with online and that what I call "Anonymous Internet People" have proven to be
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the source of almost all community problems.
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Still I have not given up. I and a number of others have taken up the task of trying to understand
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the forces which lead communities into the gutter and design infrastructure to subtly push people
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toward being excellent to each other.
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