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Internet Past Tense: Trolls, Sock-Puppets, and Good Joes in the Sandbox Newsgroup

Internet Past Tense: Trolls, Sock-Puppets, and Good Joes in the Sandbox Newsgroup

Joe Essid
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466651500|ISBN10: 1466651504|EISBN13: 9781466651517
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5150-0.ch011
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Essid, Joe. "Internet Past Tense: Trolls, Sock-Puppets, and Good Joes in the Sandbox Newsgroup." Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities: Establishing Credibility and Influence, edited by Dona J. Hickey and Joe Essid, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 188-205. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5150-0.ch011

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Essid, J. (2014). Internet Past Tense: Trolls, Sock-Puppets, and Good Joes in the Sandbox Newsgroup. In D. Hickey & J. Essid (Eds.), Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities: Establishing Credibility and Influence (pp. 188-205). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5150-0.ch011

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Essid, Joe. "Internet Past Tense: Trolls, Sock-Puppets, and Good Joes in the Sandbox Newsgroup." In Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities: Establishing Credibility and Influence, edited by Dona J. Hickey and Joe Essid, 188-205. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5150-0.ch011

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Abstract

From the time of privately hosted computer bulletin boards to the rise of social networking, USENET hosted a broad array of newsgroups that hobbyists enjoyed. At The Sandbox group for collectors of 1:6 scale GI Joe toys, members developed a set of conventions governing an online community without moderation, countered trolls, and established reputations for fairness among members using pseudonyms. In time, however, these conventions began to weaken as the hobby waned in popularity. Eventually, The Sandbox at USENET came to an end as a vital community, and a diaspora to Facebook and privately hosted, moderated forums followed. This chapter studies how the USENET community worked socially, how its language evolved, and its fate when what the author calls “the Old Internet” gave way to today’s array of social-networking and multimedia applications.

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