One big difference between traditional and social software is that user hostile interaction is a possible optimizing solution in social software. When should it occur? When the making it more inconvenient for one person makes it better for others. Paradoxically, the “others” also includes the person themself through wierd theory of mind machinations.

A workable analogy: traditional software is entities, social software is markets, user hostile interaction is arbitrage.

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