JoeUser resembling High School

The cliques are forming

Published on March 1, 2004 By JillUser In Blogging

To all of you long time JU participants, am I the only one noticing the cliques that seem to be forming? I find it interesting that as soon as enough people were present long enough for others to get a feel for their views, groups formed. The same people tend to comment on the same authors' stuff.

Don't get me wrong, I find it entertaining. I also find it interesting. From my experience, no matter the size or diversity of the group, cliques always form. That is also why I think it is important to have a point system to keep any one clique from reigning supreme over the site. I think the current system keeps it pretty balanced. What do you think?

Comments (Page 2)

JeremyG

on Mar 02, 2004

What sucks is when 3 people have a conversation in the comments area of a blog and rack up points for having a personal conversation in a public forum.

Both the users and the blog post get huge amount of points for silly message-board stuff as opposed to good blogging.

JillUser

on Mar 02, 2004

JeremyG, another similarity to High School. Popularity wins supreme. Class officers didn't get appointed because of their merit on leadership and responsibility. They got voted in by popularity. It is a hard system to work around.

JillUser

on Mar 02, 2004

Here is another resemblance of High School (and I'm not saying it's a bad thing) ala Class Clown, Most Likely to Succeed, etc :

GemCityJoe's 1st Annual JoeUser Awards Link

Jamie Burnside

on Mar 02, 2004

What really stinks is that I have to go to JoeUser detention for a week for smoking a cigarette in the bathroom.

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