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'''Community building''' happens in the real world among real people who can at least hear, touch, smell, hit and protect each other.  Without these [[affordance]]s it is impossible to have a '''community'''. Accordingly, there is no possibility that '''online community''' can exist, and [[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium itself]] never claims to be engaged in any '''community building'''.  The most it will say is that it might be helping form [[faction]]s and to reconcile terms [[factionally defined]] in real world debates.
'''Community building''' happens in the real world among real people who can at least hear, touch, smell, hit and protect each other.  Without these [[affordance]]s it is impossible to have a '''community'''.   Under this definition, the idea of [[online community]] is an [[oxymoron]].
 
[[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium itself]] never claims to be engaged in any '''community building'''.  The most it will say is that it might be helping form [[faction]]s and to reconcile terms [[factionally defined]] in real world debates.


Much [[Wikimedia corruption]] is due to the claim that some kind of '''community''' is involved or being created by simply typing.
Much [[Wikimedia corruption]] is due to the claim that some kind of '''community''' is involved or being created by simply typing.


''See [[Consumerium social club]] for more on the above questions.''
''See [[Consumerium social club]] for more on the above questions.''
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