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  • Discursive Equality and Everyday Talk Online: The Impact of "Superparticipants"*

    From pschleck@pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck) to alt.culture.usenet,alt.fan.usenet,news.groups on Sat Jun 14 00:01:31 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.groups

    "In the context of Usenet discussion forums, Himelboim et al. (2009)
    have undertaken a detailed study of new thread creation. They found that
    many Usenet forums featured a small group of 'discussion catalysts'
    whose seed posts inspired a lot of debate. Interestingly, these users
    largely posted stories from elsewhere on the web with little or no
    comment - a relatively conservative approach to setting the agenda."

    https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/19/3/625/4067622?login=false

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  • From Pranav Chiplookar@usenet@pranavchip.invalid to alt.culture.usenet,alt.fan.usenet,news.groups on Wed Nov 19 21:17:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.groups

    On 9/26/25 2:42 PM, sjoz wrote:
    On 6/14/25 02:05, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Paul W. Schleck <pschleck@panix.com> wrote:

    "In the context of Usenet discussion forums, Himelboim et al. (2009)
    have undertaken a detailed study of new thread creation. They found that >>> many Usenet forums featured a small group of 'discussion catalysts'
    whose seed posts inspired a lot of debate. Interestingly, these users
    largely posted stories from elsewhere on the web with little or no
    comment - a relatively conservative approach to setting the agenda."

    https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/19/3/625/4067622?login=false

    Ironically, Paul has posted something he didn't write.

    Ironically, we replied.

    I think I feel called out. I love science.

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    Pranav
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