"Every Home Is Wired": 3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net |
Other knowledge is also shared here, from CD availability to mail-order sources and from the Mellotron to the most obscure trivia; the aforementioned 'Bruford game' fits here, too. Due to its repetitive nature, material from this and the previous area is most likely to end up in FAQ lists, or to be banned from the more strictly edited mailing-lists (which frequently refer their readers to FAQs to avoid topic repetition). Elephant Talk, for example, has banned a variety of material that can be found in various online resources, including its Web site. | Bit 26 |
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Advice for Prog explorers: Again, this area is related to the others, but here the canons and other accumulated knowledge are used particularly to help newcomers find an entry into genre and newsgroups, and to point reasonably experienced listeners towards more obscure music or new sub-genres (and the online and offline resources related to them) which they might want to explore.13 This is a practice that is familiar from offline communities, too, but particularly the "constant growth of Usenet means that newsgroups are constantly admitting newcomers. The value of any knowledge-based virtual community derives from the quality of conversation and the expertise of the pool of contributors" (Rheingold 127).14 | Bit 27 |
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