On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Rob Huffstedtler wrote: > > > Personally, I'm thankful for them bad habits, netiquette cluelessness and > all, because they create the demand for the work I do. > > A perfect example of the Broken Windows fallacy. > -- > Not quite. For it to fit Bastiat's example, the behaviour would have to be destructive rather than merely annoying. What you have in the legions of users who aren't inclined to adapt to netiquette based on a different set of use cases that don't necessarily apply to their circumstances is economically productive activity with negative externalities. It's more like someone opening a diner in your town whose exterior walls are too shiny for the city building code (actual example taken from my current locale).
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