# Social Architecture - Building On-line Communities

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-architecture-building-on-line-communities/43871>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [5월 8, 2016, 10:13오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-architecture-building-on-line-communities/43871 "2016-05-08T10:13:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![purldator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)\
**Post date:** [5월 9, 2016, 7:35오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-architecture-building-on-line-communities/43871/6 "2016-05-09T07:35:20Z")

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> [@gdpelican](#):
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> BSing for the sake of politeness softens your point.

I agree. I say that a lot over on FeverBee. [I do not BS.](https://experts.feverbee.com/t/we-need-to-change-our-behaviour-here-at-experts/2193/10?u=purldator) To do so puts everyone at a disadvantage with [what I feel so strongly](https://experts.feverbee.com/t/some-guidance-on-dealing-with-suicidal-content-online/2114/14?u=purldator), [passionately](https://experts.feverbee.com/t/getting-people-to-make-that-first-post/2410/14?u=purldator).

> [@purldator](#):
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> (I am always sardonic; it helps to get the point across. _chuckle_)

But I would not go so low as to take someone–by name; even if a fictional name to save their face–and pummel them in a manner befitting a bully, and in a book to endeavor to bring people together.

I do not hate or dislike Pieter.

I can dislike his behavior, independent of what he has accomplished. And those accomplishments, I feel, do not give a ticket to berate for further accomplishments (or have someone like me call them out like the BS I feel it be).

I do not think even Jeff or anyone else on the Discourse team has written something like that. Sure, some like Jeff be abrasive when he wanna be. Some of it I dislike, even when not directed at me per se.

Never have I seen him berate anyone like _that_. (Hey, you got examples, I will apologize for assuming otherwise and being so strong in this conviction.)

> [@gdpelican](#):
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> Anyway I like Pieter Hintjens a lot and have a particular soft spot for him at the moment as he’s been an unequivocal badass in announcing his own terminal illness.

And I stand right next to you and agree. In that moment, to outright announce thus accept a terminal illness with that kind of confidence to stare it down and give it the middle finger _be_ the art of someone who does not cozy up to BS; they say it how they think it be, and to possibly help others stand too if they ever face this kind of life-changing act of nature.

I admire that.

I can still like someone and not agree with some of their preferences in what they consider BS, what really _matters_ in life to be considered BS and to call it out in a publication that requires a sense of _tact_ to also uphold credibility to the subject itself, considering _what_ that subject be, in this particular instance.

However, if this book be a manifesto to how he accomplished his goals in forming an online community (like a memoir), then, I can truly understand the aim of this book as I did not see that viewpoint previously, upon first glance.

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