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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I'm going to bring it home for you....and frame it around TFP.
If people here don't post, then it's not a place worth visiting. If people here are not interacting socially, then why would people continue to come here?
We don't force people to talk to each other here, we just try to encourage it. The more you participate the more you'll be able to participate in. You may call that "intentional social management"...
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I'm a guest here. When i pay to be in a coffee shop, i am a patron. And i know the difference between the two. One gives assent to participate in an experience that i do not entirely fund, control, or govern. the other is my paid participation in a contract. I accept that the TFP, or other social situations may be governed by rules or orders that i don't entirely like, or even social managements that i do like. That's a duh. But when a business decides that it will make decisions for prospective patrons, trying to engineer a particular response, i'm far less likely to accept that place as a place where i want to do business.
Now, I think i'm a pretty easy patron, and i tip well to the folks who make my stay a better one. But i'll be damned if they want to jerk customers around with when they offer certain services to tweak the "vibe" of the place...