Inconvenience and Design
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inconvenience brings people together as a community. the convenient is the corporate, the conformist, the collective. what is convenient caters to the lowest common denominator. it sacrifices all values, all goals, all soul for the sake of simple priorities such as money, fame, and power. 


inconvenience is a natural way of creating a tightly knit community, through shared challenges, barrier to entry, and proof of commitment. HOWEVER, it only works if there is somwthing valuable to be sought. a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. our pot of gold is live music and a warm, accepting, real life community. if you learn basic markdown, and you show you're willing to create, and you wait for registration to be accepted, then you've shown enough to be accepted with open arms. this is the barrier of entry to third culture:

1. learn basic input/output in a computer. use html and css.

2. prove you're willing to create and be authentic.

3. wait for your registration to be accepted.

the aspirant will upload a custom page on html that contains at least three pieces of art that they've created, and explain how they created it. this page/ticket/form will be submitted to a council member (lol), and will take however long it needs to take to be accepted. once accepted, the aspirant will have access to private third culture resources such as the events page, the art and social pages, the marketplace, and the blogs. the wiki is open to the public. 

i like this design because it implements barriers to leechers and bad actors, while not making it vaguely exclusionist like other subcultures. even if it goes "mainstream", there is now a huge part of ottawa that can express themselves with html and can make art. hooray! i expect thirdculture to scale in population heavily, and i do not want it to scale with population. i want it to inflate like a balloon, then pop. i want this influx to split off into splinters that share the same ethos but have different leaders, different names, and different interests. no real community can sustain itself beyond several hundred members without the use of violence and tyranny, and i will not succumb to cynicism.
