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Buzz - Continuing thoughts on F2F

One of the most intriguing parts of this, to me, is section 3.1.2; "How people meet: being in the in-group." Possibly because I'm usually not in the in-group... Storper theorizes that F2F communication is necessary to maintain the boundries of the in-group, so that one who has been ejected can't rejoin, but AaronSW pointed out that IRC has a similar function without F2F. Fascinating. I wonder what the intersection of this and the Advogato trust metric is, along with a project-oriented community like SourceForge?

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