blather_is_anarchy dafremen And perhaps one of the things that endears this site to me more than any of its other qualities, is that blather proves that pure freedom with few or no rules CAN work. No one needs to destroy another's ideology just because it is destructive or stupid, because over time, destructive, stupid ideas WILL die. They may pick up steam for a time, and they may thrive for a bit. But eventually..they ALL crap out. And sure..they may be revisited now and again, but the community learns how to handle the phase..and I'd like to think, becomes more accustomed to the notion that these are only farts in the wind and not cause for sounding any reactionary alarms. Blather IS freedom without fetters..and it WORKS just FINE that way. I loves me some blather. 081017 ... Sorry But No Blather is not anarchy. Built into blather is a small box permitting only 50 characters and a larger box permitting only western script. It is a pre-defined set of rules, which are thereafter not policed. Very different from anarchy. There is no means for destroying another's work, so it is false to imply that restraint has been exercised in such matters. One does not marvel at the tactful restraint of an incarcerated villain, for this villain has no opportunity to err in the first place. 081017 ... That said... it has several anarchic qualities. 081017 ... dafremen U24 knows how to destroy a page : ) And spamming the hell out of a page causing it to be practically unloadable has been done..successfully. (Although regrettably.) We've also seen blathes of various colors and font types. All have been done. So none of those points are factual..except perhaps the limitation on number of characters. But the development of Blather's twisted tangly web of pontification and nonsense would have progressed in much the same manner as it has regardless of the number of characters available. Anarchy doesn't remove the law of gravity, nor does it get rid of the need for human beings to breathe oxygen. These are parameters in which anarchy would be forced to develop on planet Earth. Dallas and the other blather_gods have, with one exception that I know of, imposed no rules upon blather's denizens in order to steer their behavior in one direction or another. The number of characters available is a space consideration...ie an environmental factor. Not a social engineering one....ie a rule. The only restriction they've imposed is the VALIDATION box, designed to make sure that only humans blathe here and not machines. Blatherskites have been governing THEMSELVES for 10 years now..and it works. : ) 081017 ... dafremen Noticed the "Western Script" thing. Still an environmental factor that does nothing to impose upon an individual's behavior here. Sorry about the misread. 081017 ... In_Bloom Anarchy of my thoughts, I love it! Where else can they go unrestrained? Here, whatever is laid down in words, stays in words and harms no one- frightens no one- jeopardizes no one. 081018 ... meta meta 100615 ... unhinged pontification 100615 what's it to you? who go blather from