Conversation

What's wrong with social media, theory 2:

On tumblr and twitter, there's no such thing as "a local community with the power to ban people", the way subreddits and livejournal groups can ban people.

Without the tools to enforce a boundary around it, you can't establish a voluntary community with higher standards of behavior than the base platform.

The "anything goes" standards of the base platform tend to drag all discussions down towards the "4-chan" level.