Hatrack River Forums

   There's a lot of talk over how Val and Peter build up their power though the nets. Like here: https://xkcd.com/635/. Even if you were a child prodigy specially bred and raised for intelligence, the internet would still crush you. I did a lot of the research for these posts on Orson Scott Card's Hatrack River forums. If all the forums in the world were as decorous and intelligent as the Hatrack River Forums, we'd be in no shortage of excellence, and their system would work. It's actually one of the most thoughtful debate forums on the internet. Occasionally Uncle Orson himself will even descend, Godlike, from the heavens, to clarify whatever points they're debating about him. It is possible for there to be prudence on the internet. And maybe one day the entire thing will be so, just like in Ender's Game. Who knows, maybe needing a citizen's access pass to get on the nets would spur such change.

   Of course, though, it's Orson Scott Card, who is not without his share of enemies. Those that try to spur a reaction, though, tend to get shot down in some rather deferential flames. Occasionally there are they who post just to take up a personal vendetta against OSC's politics, these trolls can be summed up quite nicely (and hilariously) in this thread, here:
http://www.hatrack.com/ubb/main/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=003063