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If they threaten to shut down this board, I bet most of you ...

... fucking run away, you fucking chickens. How many of y...
motley clear international law enforcement agency sound barrier
  04/26/07
I would run away, rather than have my name and reputation at...
avocado cracking legal warrant school cafeteria
  04/26/07
You're an idiot if you'd stake your reputation for this piec...
Awkward pit
  04/26/07
STFU fag
Crystalline really tough guy sex offender
  04/26/07
do you live in China or something? Who is this "they?&q...
deranged old irish cottage
  04/26/07
There's a collective action problem because despite the (IMO...
Lascivious painfully honest library
  04/26/07
This is a serious post so please dont bash me for my ignoran...
deranged old irish cottage
  04/26/07
you should have learned about collective action problems in ...
Impressive dingle berry
  04/26/07
I never took that class.
deranged old irish cottage
  04/26/07
well you should, it's one of those classes that I think ever...
Impressive dingle berry
  04/26/07
I took as many of those types of courses as I could but you ...
deranged old irish cottage
  04/26/07
I was trying to think if there was a more specific term for ...
Lascivious painfully honest library
  04/26/07
tragedy of the commons?
Spruce Legend
  04/26/07
is there a race to the bottom here?
Impressive dingle berry
  04/26/07
LOL
charismatic crackhouse kitty cat
  04/26/07
suboptimal equilibrium point.
Spruce Legend
  04/26/07
Tragedy of the commons is more how everybody exploits a reso...
Lascivious painfully honest library
  04/26/07
another way of saying tragedy of the commons is moral hazard...
deranged old irish cottage
  04/26/07
moral hazard and tragedy of the commons aren't the same thin...
Spruce Legend
  04/26/07
you should tell this to my *** law professor because he uses...
deranged old irish cottage
  04/26/07
if you step away from the textbook example of tragedy of the...
Spruce Legend
  04/26/07
All collective action problems are basically variants of the...
Lascivious painfully honest library
  04/26/07
i'm thinking a concept like synergy might best describe it -...
Spruce Legend
  04/26/07
You, Hazelrah, are a true genius. Edit: Holy fucking shit...
charismatic crackhouse kitty cat
  04/26/07
Its obvious without the long explanation I just wanted to kn...
deranged old irish cottage
  04/26/07
this whole sub-thread reeks of pseudo-intellectual law stude...
gaped plaza
  04/26/07
Fuck all of you, you fucking scared shit-eating niggers. Go ...
motley clear international law enforcement agency sound barrier
  04/26/07


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Date: April 26th, 2007 1:47 AM
Author: motley clear international law enforcement agency sound barrier

... fucking run away, you fucking chickens.

How many of you can genuinely say that you will stand up for this board?

You fuckers yield the benefits, but have absolutely no fucking loyalty

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008553)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 1:49 AM
Author: avocado cracking legal warrant school cafeteria

I would run away, rather than have my name and reputation attached to this shithole. I would be out like a light. Fold like a piece of paper.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008563)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 1:49 AM
Author: Awkward pit

You're an idiot if you'd stake your reputation for this piece of shit board and it's piece of shit administrators (ie: GTO....I won't pass judgement on rach at this point).

GTFOI.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008564)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 1:50 AM
Author: Crystalline really tough guy sex offender

STFU fag

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008566)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 1:51 AM
Author: deranged old irish cottage

do you live in China or something? Who is this "they?" Are you talking about the owners?

If GTO and Rach want to shut it down they will and they wont ask any of us so there will be no opportunity to stand up for shit, but nobody can really force them to do it at the end of the day.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008569)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 1:52 AM
Author: Lascivious painfully honest library

There's a collective action problem because despite the (IMO) large benefit of having this board, the benefit is dispersed among the many people who come here, so each of us only benefits a little.

I said this is another thread, but there is only a very small incentive for any of us to post here (http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/I_did_it_for_the_lulz ) so it'd only take a small risk of negative consequences to send a chilling effect throughout the board.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008570)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 1:58 AM
Author: deranged old irish cottage

This is a serious post so please dont bash me for my ignorance.

I've never heard anyone call this a "collective action problem." Is this a term of art like "moral hazard" thats used a lot but that I was just to stupid to pickup in law school or did you just invent it now?

I agree with you.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008593)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:00 AM
Author: Impressive dingle berry

you should have learned about collective action problems in business organizations/corporations, at the very least

the easiest example is shareholder voting, if you've got a widely held, dispersed company none of the very small shareholders really stand to gain enough to make it worth their while to monitor the firm

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008606)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:02 AM
Author: deranged old irish cottage

I never took that class.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008616)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:05 AM
Author: Impressive dingle berry

well you should, it's one of those classes that I think everyone is expected to take at some point, but isn't necessarily a 1L class

like evidence or admin (your mileage may vary by school, obviously)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008632)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:10 AM
Author: deranged old irish cottage

I took as many of those types of courses as I could but you cant take all the "bar" courses during 2L and 3L no matter how much you want to.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008659)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:04 AM
Author: Lascivious painfully honest library

I was trying to think if there was a more specific term for what I was describing, but I couldn't think of it. It's kind of like the flipside of free-riding, kind of like the prisoner's dilemma, is a bit related with externalities, but whatever, it's late and my command of buzzwords is a bit diminished. Regardless, it is certainly *a* collective action problem: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-rider/#1

This is more an economics thing than law school, although I think I owe my (obviously limited) knowledge of such things to a CLS course that is unfortunately no longer required (Regulatory State).

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008623)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:05 AM
Author: Spruce Legend

tragedy of the commons?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008630)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:06 AM
Author: Impressive dingle berry

is there a race to the bottom here?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008633)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:10 AM
Author: charismatic crackhouse kitty cat

LOL

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008662)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:10 AM
Author: Spruce Legend

suboptimal equilibrium point.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008663)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:10 AM
Author: Lascivious painfully honest library

Tragedy of the commons is more how everybody exploits a resource because there's no single person would benefit from their use. Same basic idea of a collective action problem but not really what's going on here.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008658)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:13 AM
Author: deranged old irish cottage

another way of saying tragedy of the commons is moral hazard and again you are right this isnt that for a bunch of reasons.

I thought collective action was different am I wrong?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008681)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:16 AM
Author: Spruce Legend

moral hazard and tragedy of the commons aren't the same thing. tragedy of the commons specifically refers to communal property rights and overexploitation. moral hazard is what happens when you give people incentives to act badly - for instance, your car is insured, so you're not as careful when driving.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008690)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:20 AM
Author: deranged old irish cottage

you should tell this to my *** law professor because he uses the two interchangeably. Though I guess medicaid creates both problems at the same time.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008707)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:18 AM
Author: Spruce Legend

if you step away from the textbook example of tragedy of the commons it is. in the tragedy of the commons case, no one has any incentive to stop exploiting a resource because they would lose even though society would be better off. here, no one would have any incentive to act because they would lose, while everyone else would be better off. the only difference i see is stopping action (t of c) and starting action (this board)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008701)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:23 AM
Author: Lascivious painfully honest library

All collective action problems are basically variants of the prisoner's dilemma. So yes you can say that this is not too different from a tragedy of the commons, except the whole point of having the term "tragedy of the commons" is to talk about a specific situation, and that situation is not what we have here.

It's a little more like free-riding, which would be the case if one of us did try to stand up for the board but couldn't find anybody to go along with him or her. But again that's also a little different than this situation.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008717)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:25 AM
Author: Spruce Legend

i'm thinking a concept like synergy might best describe it - where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008731)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:02 AM
Author: charismatic crackhouse kitty cat

You, Hazelrah, are a true genius.

Edit: Holy fucking shit- Valen's post has made me realize why you explained this very simple concept so thoroughly. My apologies.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008613)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:05 AM
Author: deranged old irish cottage

Its obvious without the long explanation I just wanted to know if its a commonly used term like moral hazard.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008629)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:15 AM
Author: gaped plaza

this whole sub-thread reeks of pseudo-intellectual law student douchebaggery. hth.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008684)



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Date: April 26th, 2007 2:22 AM
Author: motley clear international law enforcement agency sound barrier

Fuck all of you, you fucking scared shit-eating niggers. Go back to your fucking ghetto, fucking Africa turds.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=620963&forum_id=2#8008715)