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Friend of mine told me about a story in the book "Tipping Point"

Posted on 5/14/13 at 2:31 pm
Posted by Iona Fan Man
Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 2:31 pm
seems that in NYC they had a grafiti problem on the subway cars. That kids would break in to the yard at night and do these elaborate artistic displays and then cherish their work the next morning during rush hour.

What they did to fight this is that they stopped policing and trying to catch the kids....Instead they just let them work for hours making their creation, and then right before the trains went into service they'd cover up the art with spray.

The kids were so pissed.....hours and hours of drawing, but no reward to see people admiring their art. So the kids stopped with the Graffiti on train cars.

Is that why my threads are gone? Did someone read tipping point recently?
Posted by Cap Crunch
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 2:34 pm to
Your threads are gone because you are literally the worst poster on this site
Posted by Displaced
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 2:36 pm to
don't hate, he is just attempting to fill the void left by gaucho.
Posted by Iona Fan Man
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 2:38 pm to
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 2:49 pm to
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why my threads are gone

probably some damn woman
Posted by Iona Fan Man
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 2:52 pm to
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probably some damn woman


thought that tigergrl37 or whatever her name was retired....there're chick admins?
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 2:55 pm to
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thought that tigergrl37 or whatever her name was retired....there're chick admins?

During special circumstances Paige has plenipotentiary powers
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 3:54 pm to
you aren't funny, you aren't smart, you aren't edgy, etc

you start the worst threads. I mean even Ryno and Peej start better threads
Posted by wildtigercat93
Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 4:26 pm to
Nobody cares Jahel
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 4:33 pm to
I read the book. Your friend is retarded if that's the point he got from that anecdote.
Posted by Iona Fan Man
Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 4:36 pm to
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I read the book. Your friend is retarded if that's the point he got from that anecdote.


what was the point then?
Posted by Iona Fan Man
Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 4:39 pm to
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you start the worst threads.


proof? I see none
Posted by genro
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 4:42 pm to
It was about the broken windows theory and how it was applied in NYC. If a neighborhood has a lot of broken windows, violent crimes are more likely to be committed there.

So they figured the way to stop violent crime instead of the traditional way - to go after the violent offenders themselves with force - was to cut down on the petty crimes. So they cracked down hard on toll-jumpers and graffiti. And all of a sudden rape and murder went down. Here's the thing, the cops and the city didn't really give a shite about toll-jumpers and graffiti. There were simply trying to create an atmosphere that would be psychologically less conducive to violent crime. And it worked.
This post was edited on 5/14/13 at 4:43 pm
Posted by Iona Fan Man
Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 4:49 pm to
so how can tipping point theory be applied to bad posters/threads?
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 4:53 pm to
Well you could say the admins deal with your petty crime of starting terrible threads, because that could indirectly prevent the entire site from literally exploding.
Posted by Wooly
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 7:02 pm to
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Your threads are gone because you are literally the worst poster on this site



Heyyy
Posted by Brageous
Member since Jul 2008
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Posted on 5/14/13 at 7:27 pm to
I want more stats on all the whores of the world.
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 7:10 am to
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I mean even Ryno and Peej start better threads


whoa now, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Maybe Peej, but Ryno..?
Posted by Paige
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Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 9:22 am to
That book was a good read

Unlike your threads
Posted by Spirit of Dunson
Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 5/15/13 at 12:51 pm to
Graffiti was also part of tipping point.

In order to clean up graffiti on the subway, they did it in a staged manner. A small number of trains were designated as ‘clean trains’. These trains were not allowed to slip and become covered in graffiti even though other trains remained ‘dirty’. The number of clean trains was slowly increased at a rate the maintenance crew could handle until the problem tipped and became controllable.
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