Comments on: Online Community Reading http://www.wilsondan.co.uk/2009/07/15/online-community-reading/ eBay Expert, Online Community Specialist, Author and Blogger Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sue http://www.wilsondan.co.uk/2009/07/15/online-community-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-41430 Sue Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:04:21 +0000 http://www.wilsondan.co.uk/?p=1264#comment-41430 I agree with you about the Managing Communities piece being cold and inhuman, but I also think with eBay you were in a fortunate position in that you could access members' physical addresses. If anyone came on e.g. the TameBay forum and said they'd just slit their wrists, sending an email would be almost everything I could do. And that disturbs me. Fortunately, so far, only in a philosophical kinda way. I agree with you about the Managing Communities piece being cold and inhuman, but I also think with eBay you were in a fortunate position in that you could access members’ physical addresses. If anyone came on e.g. the TameBay forum and said they’d just slit their wrists, sending an email would be almost everything I could do.

And that disturbs me. Fortunately, so far, only in a philosophical kinda way.

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