John Coate: “Assigning the mantle of ‘community’ to one’s enterprise before-the-fact as a marketing hook just serves to cheapen the term. Because it can only really be true if the people who are actively involved in it, declare for themselves that it is true: we are a community.”
N.B. That sentence was written in 1998. Or earlier.
that was pretty much the vibe at tripod back in ’99…