23rd July 2009

Text reblogged from Something Changed.

Content I Generate

somethingchanged:

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All of my user generated content suffers from a peculiar source of gentrification.  I’ll start out by thinking, “Gee, this will be a place I can post stupid things.  After all, who will ever read it.”  Then I will learn that people actually read what I’m writing.  Suddenly I feel bad about posting stupid things.  Now I need to put more thought into what I do.  The stupidest things get cut—and the quality standard goes up.  Perhaps more people read it.  Next thing you know my internal quality standard has gone up so much that I can’t write anything that meets my own standards.  I need to find a newer, darker part of the internet to pollute.

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