a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building
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Civil intellectual discussion that is irrelevant makes the environment noisy.
By the way, a lot depends on the medium. You mostly only see things you're intentionally looking at, but you can't avoid hearing sounds that are sufficiently loud. If you're watching something NSFW in a public place, they expect you to wear earphones, but there are no eyephones.
When using a medium where you can't choose which sources of information to use and which ones to ignore, it's necessary to ban sending messages most participants are not interested in hearing.
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