Editing Virtual community

A '''virtual community''' or '''online community''' is a bunch of geeks trying to pretend they are a community, but really just taking advantage of flaws in [[social software]] to give themselves a more important position than they can get in real life.  If you call [[Consumerium]] by this name, you can expect people to make life nastier than it otherwise had to be.

If you are a [[sysop]] and you do this on your own wiki, expect [[regime change]].  Calling something a community invites [[politics as usual]]!

A much more valid and real concept is [[w:epistemic community]] or [[w:community of practice]], both of which [[Consumerium social club]] might be.

But in no sense is it a little "community" with a [[political spectrum]] of its own - we want our political discussions here focused on real world [[political choice]] so we can promote [[political consumerism]], not on trivial politics of who offended who or who is a [[troll]].  We are ''all trolls, get over it''!