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The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Re: The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Post by freshhawk »

I would love to have this restarted but as a cooperative and with only the people who refused or left Latitude because of the power/information asymmetry. Or those types of people. They saw the problem and acted even when being a member must have been a lot of fun and it must have been painful to be left out.

The mystery and social connections from something like this are great, the number of people obviously using it to play out some power fantasy are not. Do you want cults? Because that's how you get cults.

Kat Meler's quote "I'm more for 'surprises' now, I think. A surprise is a secret that everyone agrees will only last for a finite time, and will ultimately be gifted and shared." is a great lesson to learn from this.

Re: The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Post by glubGlub »

afpx wrote: post #18
stickfigure wrote: post #17

Wow, I can't believe the cynicism and bile in this thread. Even the title of the submission! I didn't get to participate in this game, but I played in a elaborate plot-based scavenger hunt that some friends of mine in San Luis Obispo spent months (and thousands of dollars) planning. It was incredible, and I feel very special and honored to be one of the relatively few people invited to participate. Many months later…

Where is the cynicism and bile? At this moment, there are 5 top level comments of which yours is one, and the other 4 comments are neutral.

Call it pre-emptive forum sliding, for whatever reason. Maybe he's worried about someone popping the bubble on his sweet baboo's secret society.

Re: The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Post by colanderman »

ckamin5 wrote: post #2

Off topic, but is anyone else having trouble loading and reading the article? I tried 3 times and the website is utterly unusable. Keeps sending me to the bottom of the page.

Yes, scrolls randomly past 500 other articles in Vivaldi (Chrome) on OS X. Why did anyone ever think allowing JavaScript to control scroll was a good idea.

Re: The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Post by Illniyar »

ckamin5 wrote: post #2

Off topic, but is anyone else having trouble loading and reading the article? I tried 3 times and the website is utterly unusable. Keeps sending me to the bottom of the page.

Yep keep jumping every time an image or ad loads.

You really should never override default scroll

Re: The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Post by colanderman »

Maybe I'm a boring middle-class introvert but…

> People I knew made vague threats that I would regret leaving or talking about it. A roommate of mine stopped telling me where he was going when he left the house. Friends whom I trusted contacted me and played stupid about their own involvement in order to suss out what I knew. I can't say with confidence that Nonchalance encouraged this behavior, but they should have been able to predict it.

What kind of person regularly interacts with so many people that several of them – "people", "a roommate", and "friends" – are part of some secret society and feel the need to start bothering her about no longer partaking?

Hell, I'm lucky if I can find one person I know to play Words With Friends. And none of them would notice or care if I stopped playing, they'd just assume I got busy or something, like every other middle-class 30-something with a job.

I guess this is a wealthy socialite thing? Reading this feels so foreign to me.

Re: The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Post by dang »

stickfigure wrote: post #17

Wow, I can't believe the cynicism and bile in this thread. Even the title of the submission! I didn't get to participate in this game, but I played in a elaborate plot-based scavenger hunt that some friends of mine in San Luis Obispo spent months (and thousands of dollars) planning. It was incredible, and I feel very special and honored to be one of the relatively few people invited to participate. Many months later…

I was the person who changed the title and it wasn't for cynical reasons; just because the subtitle was less baity.

In the hope of making you feel better, we shall take out the "for-profit" bit. That plus I can't fit "(2016)" in 80 chars otherwise :)

Re: The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Post by MistahKoala »

ckamin5 wrote: post #2

Off topic, but is anyone else having trouble loading and reading the article? I tried 3 times and the website is utterly unusable. Keeps sending me to the bottom of the page.

Yep. Utterly unusable on my Android tablet.

Re: The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Post by Domenic_S »

colanderman wrote: post #25

Maybe I'm a boring middle-class introvert but… > People I knew made vague threats that I would regret leaving or talking about it. A roommate of mine stopped telling me where he was going when he left the house. Friends whom I trusted contacted me and played stupid about their own involvement in order to suss out what I knew. I can't say with confidence that Nonchalance encouraged this behavior, but they should have…

Wealthy socialites don't have roommates. This reads like the author is in college or fresh out, where school friends + roommates + roommates' friends + parties + nights out = interacting with a lot of people.

Re: The rise and fall of Latitude, an exclusive underground society (2016)

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Post by srtjstjsj »

colanderman wrote: post #25

Maybe I'm a boring middle-class introvert but… > People I knew made vague threats that I would regret leaving or talking about it. A roommate of mine stopped telling me where he was going when he left the house. Friends whom I trusted contacted me and played stupid about their own involvement in order to suss out what I knew. I can't say with confidence that Nonchalance encouraged this behavior, but they should have…

the society is all the friends of friends of someone. So someone in that circle of friends has several. The rest of the world has 0.
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