
Journal Journal: Online communities becoming online trash?
As we all know there are thousands upon thousands of online communities that seem to flood the internet traffic on a daily basis. Each one having its own topic or theme. The question though is when is it too much. We have quality news communities like slashdot that provide a abuntant resource of information and there are your thousand of useful egroups. However there are the other communities where they are a promising group that never turns out to be more than one and the site will end up rotting and cluttering the internet for years upon years. This is even more of a hassle if you are trying to search for a specific group to join and you are met with a search result of 3011 dead groups. I guess the great thing about the internet is you can broadcast a page or rather a server from any location and anyone can do it. Is there or should there be a regulation on net junk though? I don't really think there should be a regulation persay for I believe the internet should be 100% free and a world of its own but would there be a way to better manage or ask users to try to keep semi tidy when stuff is dead for over say 2-5 years?
Then again you are also faced with the question of archiving stuff. The grand piece of the internet is it has practically unlimited space with the combined effort of thousands upon thousands of hard drives already. Should the dead communities remain in existance purely for archiving purposes or should they eventually be pruned and as the old saying goes, "Out with the old and in with the new?"