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Voted : What the hell are you talking about?
Did you not see how many people came to Herzog's defense?
^I'm not talking about Herzog's one issue, I'm talking in general terms.
RunsWithScissors
Do you believe there are cliques here?
any place people gather, they will establish a standard to conform to, and several small ones to "rebel" (conform) to. and in any such place, i will not be in one of those groups.
^Yes, I see that there seems to be cliques here and I think it's silly. 
neothe1
I don't know what the best approach is because you don't want to end up being anti-social.
Voted : Interesting, I never thought about it
We've got the "musketeer (all for one, one for all) mentality, sleeper cells, conservative ideologues, "posses", homeys and cadres' pretty much a "mirror" image of the real world...then there are those who do not wish to compromise their right to be a "free" agent and not hampered by any "exclusive group mentality" ...but as the "good book" says: birds of a feather flock together...yet some "wolves" don't run in packs...
Voted : Thanks for the reminder
Sometimes it seems more like occasional insanity than mere cliques.
Voted : What the hell are you talking about?
I have no clue what cliques exist here, I guess I never really pay attention.
Voted : Interesting, I never thought about it
When I think of "cliques" I think about exclusive groups of people. In real-world cliques people band together out of common interests, opinions, and similarities to one another. People develop a "group identity". Being part of a group offers a kind of protection (safety in numbers), as well as providing a sense of belonging.
In cyberspace, we're anonymous and don't really know each other that well. The group dynamics are looser since we're limited by written communication. There's no physical proximity like in concrete social situations, and since it's all words on a screen we lose the emotional content people transmit through tone of voice and, to a lesser extent, body language.
I've noticed things resembling cliques or exclusive social groups in larger cybercommunities, but I really haven't noticed anything around here I would call a "clique", per se. Some might share similar opinions or be casual friends, but that's typically the limit of the solidarity.
In the larger cybercommunities or message boards you're more likely to notice groups of people who "stand together" simply by virtue of wanting to maintain a certain measure of group cohesion, and not necessarily because they agree with one another.
Good question.
"I don't know what the best approach is because you don't want to end up being anti-social."
and i'm not. it's the conformists who are antisocial
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