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I see people having a 
                              hard time knowing how to 
                              behave,

  veering from flaming 
                              rage to desperately cautious 
                              oversensitivity.


All of the things are 
                              connected simply by the fact that the 
                              internet

  (and particularly the 
                              Bronze) are new societies, still 
                              forming,

    and the 
                              rules, the boundaries, are still 
                              unclear.


Feels a bit like the end of 
                              the STAND, when the police 

  are 
                              asking to be armed and they wonder if the new 
                              society 

     will 
                              be any better -- or any DIFFERENT -- from the 
                              old.


Well, this one will be 
                              different.

  Privacy and 
                              propriety are going to become very tricky issues 
                              here.

  I don't really have any 
                              brilliant conclusion [. . .], and I'm 
                              certainly

    not here 
                              to say "Don't do the following!," or "Behave this 
                              way!"

  I just want to say that 
                              it's hard. [ . . .]


It used to be 
                              simpler, but now this community 
                              

  has grown to the point where 
                              laws start to be 
                              made.

    Personally, I 
                              feel like we have way too many and not nearly 
                              enough,

      depending 
                              on the day of the week.


But it's a good 
                              community -- 

  a lot of you have 
                              posted things that I love 
                              

    -- and I'm not 
                              referring to the 
                              PRAISE,,

       love 
                              the PRAISE but that's not what I mean here 
                              --

    things that made 
                              me thing, reassess, laugh [...] all kinds of 
                              stuff.


And I know it's a blast for the 
                              writers, and others to talk to you 
                              guys

  and get the PRAISE and 
                              joke around -- none of us could had that 
                              contact

    without 
                              this, and we treasure it.


It's just 
                              that there is a dark side to it, and it showed up 
                              with a vengeance.

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