https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/2020/03/29/online-community-case-study-being-tta-on-kindara/ MAS S.67 // Spring 2020 Tue, 19 May 2020 20:52:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/2020/03/29/online-community-case-study-being-tta-on-kindara/#comment-32 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 22:21:46 +0000 https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/?p=454#comment-32 Thanks for sharing a community that I would not otherwise have known about. I’m particularly struck by the fact that a community has a high degree of anonymity and also a high degree of support, likely because of the subject matter and the common experiences of the women participating. I appreciate the tensions you identified within an otherwise healthy community. I think it’s helpful to recognize that even the healthiest of communities are going to have problems that recur – the existence of FAQs actually stems from questions people got sick of answering in Usenet groups. I’m fascinated that conversations like abortion can unfold in this group without splitting it apart. Do you have a sense for the moderation or other structures that keep the community from occasionally spiraling out of control?

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