You have the two extremes:
(A): IORR.org is a closed place where IORR magazine subscribers only can meet and talk. There would be no "strangers" and I would hardly have to ban or delete or "clean up" after people because people would know the rules. Easy for me. Esy for you. No worries. Like a family party. You know who is coming. You know who has got a big mouth and who is not controlling his temper. But you will be ok, because you know everybody.
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: IORR.org is an open place where anybody can say what they like. Free flow of information. It's like going in a strange city at nights. You feel unsafe. People may attack you and your feelings. But then again some times you meet interesting people and interesting opinions. You stumble across people in trouble and people getting at you but you ignore them and you move on.
I try to get the best of both worlds. The closed IORR would have a thousand or so visitors only. Limitied information flow. The all open IORR has got more than one million visitors. There are a few rats that are invading IORR.org at times trying to make it look bad, so that IORR visitors should feel unsafe and go other places, but I kill these rats and work hard on making it social and safe enough for all of us.
Bjornulf