Back when I was active on Usenet it was considered pretty normal to have house rules for any newsgroup, you were also expected to refrain from posting long enough to notice and learn the unspoken customs (this was called "lurking").
Nowadays people see it as an orchestrated attack against free speech, shout references to 1984, and threaten to move elsewhere.
Yet the ones asking us all to behave politely are called "hypersensitive"?
@jkb Back then, we came to an online community understanding the value of that community, both to itself and to each other. We didn't go to a group just to spout and spew to satisfy our own personal desires for attention. We came to alt.cyberpunk and comp.sys.mac to be part of something bigger than ourselves, and to return something to the group in appreciation. Canter and Seigel kinda broke that, and it's been downhill and Eternal September ever since.
