mob rule

rules for mobs, or mob rule?

by Karoli on June 29, 2009 · 1 comment

Once again words are tossed around the Internet without much regard for the harm they do. This debate started over the weekend (as most of them do), and rages on. Two and a half years after Kathy Sierra‘s withdrawal from the Internet, I’m still writing about the same stuff. I suppose I will be until [...]

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Voting the Autistic Kid Off the Island

by Karoli on May 25, 2008 · 23 comments

Since when did Kindergarten become Survivor: Florida? And since when did it become some sort of twisted democracy, where children were not only allowed, but encouraged, to speak their minds about their dislike of a classmate and then vote him out of class? Well, in Port St. Lucie, Florida, it happened. PORT ST. LUCIE — [...]

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