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- Apr 12, 2016
I didn't get involved until much later, my hands are clean of your blood
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Chris didn't get scouted out of nowhere, though. It wasn't like he had his content abruptly posted online for no reason. Chris posted things online, and with that, he opened a gate.
Sometimes I think about this subject and I wonder how far-reaching are the implications of our decisions.
What gate precisely did he open, though?
This forum actively seeks out crazy internet people now. We don't have to prod anyone - in fact the kiwi farms' philosophy is inarguably more strictly non-interventionist than the wild west rules that "governed" interaction with Chris. But is that because our appetite was whetted by a novel example? Or because the rules of the online world have changed dramatically since 2007? Regardless... this forum has an active economy in exposing monsters online, and I think Chris-trolling directly fed into that. Which means more when you consider the fact that that Chris community was - relatively speaking - a tiny backwater in its heyday, but now the farms are becoming such a big internet presence that we can't really be ignored by anyone, and I think a lot of outsiders and newcomers don't even think about the connection.
I think trolling Chris led to an institutional change in the way some very big communities do things now.
Yes we are the only people on this planet that care if he lives or dies besides his mother Barbara (who might be senile now so that would just leave us), but was it really the right thing in the end?