文章探讨了传统社区以外的非传统紧密型社区的重要性，指出许多人在未经个人直接接触的情况下可能从未听说过这些社区。作者以自己参与的泡沫对抗（boffer）组织为例，阐述了该社区成员之间深厚的联系和紧密的纽带，包括定期活动、社交互动、共同价值观和规范等。文章强调，这些社区虽然缺乏统一的信仰或领导，但拥有强大的社区规范和目标，对个人和社会具有深远影响。文章呼吁人们关注这些往往被忽视的社区，并思考它们在现代社会中的作用和意义。

🌐 文章指出，许多非传统紧密型社区，如泡沫对抗组织，拥有深厚的成员联系和紧密的纽带，这些社区往往被主流社会忽视，但它们在个人和社会生活中扮演着重要角色。

🗣️ 作者以自己参与的泡沫对抗组织为例，详细描述了成员之间的定期活动、社交互动、共同价值观和规范，如包容性、创造积极体验、现代版骑士精神等，展示了这些社区的文化和凝聚力。

📚 文章强调，这些社区虽然缺乏统一的信仰或领导，但它们通过强大的社区规范和目标，对成员产生深远影响，并为社会提供独特的支持和价值观，值得人们关注和研究。

🤝 文章呼吁人们认识到这些社区的重要性，并思考它们在现代社会中的作用和意义，鼓励人们更加开放地了解和参与这些非传统的社区生活。

🔍 通过对泡沫对抗组织的深入描述，文章揭示了非传统社区的结构和组织方式，如房屋、公会、战斗单位、骑士和侍从制度等，展示了这些社区的文化多样性和复杂性。

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1: Comments About The Theory 2: Comments About Specific Communities 3: Other Comments

Comments About The Theory

Darwin writes:

I think you may (*may*, I'm not sure) be vastly underestimating how many people are in some form of nontraditional tight-knit community.

Notice that many of the communities you list are things you've directly personally encountered through your online interests or social circle. Most people have never heard of libertarian homesteaders or rationalist dating sites, perhaps you have also never heard of the things most other people belong to.

For my part, I have been part of a foam combat ('boffer') organization since college. You may want to say 'that's not a community, that's just a hobby', but the people in this sport form a strong community with tight bonds outside the game itself. Not only do I go to practices twice a week, I have 2 D&D games and 1 board game night every week with mostly members of the community, members of the community are my friends that I go out to movies and dinners with, play video games with voice chat on Discord with, talk to online in Discord servers and web forums and group chats, go to parties with and gossip about with other community members. Aside from attending over a dozen weddings of community members (mostly to other community members), I've served as best man for 2 members and wedding officiant for 2 other members. The sport itself has houses, guilds, and fighting units, all with their own ethos, credos, goals, activities, and hierarchies; it has knighthoods and squireships, it has awards for arts and crafts and community service. The sport has regular camping events that end up looking like temporary compounds of hundreds to thousand+ members, lasting from a weekend to a week. We may not have a singular God or Invisible Hand we all worship, but we have strong community norms towards things like inclusion, creating positive experiences, some modernized gender-neutral version of chivalry, creating safe spaces, etc.

If you didn't know me very very well, you might know that 'oh yeah, he does some kind of sword fighting thing on the weekends I think?', and not know there's a large and strong community there.

I wonder how many other things are like this - I think 'oh yeah, they play softball on the weekends, oh yeah, they belong to a knitting circle, oh yeah, they go to a lot of concerts, oh yeah, they volunteer at some kind of community center', and have no idea that there's a strong close-knit community surrounding those things that remains largely invisible to outsiders.

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