Had I written a long article about the good times at early Reddit, young Startup News, or even the newly rebranded HN and written about how we should strive to return to those days, that would be wishful thinking.
Your comment is extremely disrespectful, and I believe erroneous.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics , "There is no academic consensus on the exact definition of "Politics" and what counts as political and what does not. Max Weber defined politics as the struggle for power." I found that definition applicable.
Groups within a community are generally good ways to meet new people and make connections, but I haven't seen any benefit in Mensa specifically. Go join a *UG or some group oriented toward finishing projects, not self-celebration.
The mainstream media had this idea first, they picked up the story of the New York highschool student who tested Red Snapper in various sushi restaurants and found that it was often Talapia.
That story got repeated in some jurisdictions, now a year or so later someone gets around to doing it with vegan food.
Generally agreed, though I can think of one example to the contrary.
The churches that rent are usually newer and growing. The much loved idea that a startup is a better place than a well established organization works for churches too.
I also heard that (IIRC) a church just about doubles in size when it gets a building. I don't know what analogue that has in the business world.
(Protip: Rent from a Catholic highschool, even if it's a Protestant church. Lower prices, smarter people.)
That's kind of the point, nothing was said that wasn't already public available information, yet people got angry at Xach for saying it.
The lack of trust is not trusting the community not to abuse an explained hack, and the whole is made dumb by the fact that anyone can figure out the hack for themselves even if it wasn't explained to them.
Taking it public is a fix. Now that this information is public none of us will give out our usernames to external websites, thus ending the problem. In effect Xach's could decide between emailing someone hoping they fix the problem, or just fixing it.
I found this whole event funny. I'm also amused that people reacted as negatively to this prank as middle managers at my old $MEGACORP job would.