tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post879602669052475750..comments2023-11-03T02:45:14.110-05:00Comments on I Have Touched the Sky: A Sense of Communityrowanblazehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820814610269599162noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post-12593633386967385382011-09-09T14:55:15.222-05:002011-09-09T14:55:15.222-05:00I totally agree that big communities tend to be mu...I totally agree that big communities tend to be much more impersonal than small ones, online and off. However, it also varies a lot from one place to the next in my eperience. LoTRO has a remarkably good community for a game of it's size in my experience. Conversely Pittsburgh has a remarkably; let us say... impatient of fools, indecision, and strangers; community for a city of it's size.Yeebohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08028940396189544294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post-79329828103864245032011-09-09T13:59:42.055-05:002011-09-09T13:59:42.055-05:00As someone who has lived most of her life in big c...As someone who has lived most of her life in big cities, I've always just grown up knowing that that's just how the way things are. The bigger a community gets, the more indifferent the people will be. <br /><br />I don't want to sound cynical either, because I don't believe that the rude people we encounter are jerks all the time. People have bad days, and when they don't know you, there's no reason for them to invest in kindness when in the back of their minds they know there's little chance of seeing you ever again. Versus in a small community, being amiable will get you much farther ahead, especially if you know you'll see each other again on a regular basis, or run the risk of knowing that if you acted like a jerk, the other person knows all your friends and will tell everyone and your mother what a big asshole you were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com