Thank you for your kindness, Serena. I appreciate that you have picked up on that, as it means a lot. Those four episodes are really special to me, too. I would not at all be surprised to see some or all of them make this "greatest hits" episode, if we make it happen.

Thank you, Karn, for your friendship, support, and all of your work over the years.

-Patrick

When I had the idea for Community Signal, Karn was the first person that came to mind to have as a producer. Karn is a true creative partner in the program, and someone I trust to guide the direction of the show. He's worked on every single episode we've released.

“... As @hrheingold.bsky.social put it once, it was where the tool makers meet the tool users. In addition to being a place where people can converse, it was also a kind of birthplace of a sort of online gift economy.”

- @johncoate.bsky.social

“99% of the smartest people in the world don’t work for us. Ideas can come from anywhere. It’s about leveraging those ideas, but it’s also about building those relationships with people. … I’ve had three community members come in and get hired as LEGO designers.”

“... That hurts a little bit more than just dealing with bots. ... These are people interacting with other people, and there was a human element there. The researchers are real people. I’m a real person. This happened between real people, and it wasn’t just AI.” -Logan MacGregor

“... What I think is so insidious about AI is it’s caused people to behave in ways that I don’t know we would have, without the stupid thinking machines. Because it’s a toxic influence. Unlike the bots that are invading us daily, that we’re constantly shutting down. …

“One thing that’s really special about Change My View is that it’s a human space; it’s a decidedly human space. … The University of Zurich is a decidedly human space. ...

“A lot of [ILTA's] material has the word attorney, which doesn’t exist in the UK. We have solicitors and barristers. … There are little tweaks ... that we’ve had to do in order to localize what we’re providing to [the UK] region. … It’s a big deal to people.” –Mercedes Oppon-Kusi

“... My theory is if you have a good community site that is easy and people like to use, people are going to be more willing to create a meaningful membership in that community.” -Matt Nevill

“... Not only that, but if they just visit your community, they can poke around and read the content without feeling like they’re trapped into [creating an account]. Some people don’t want to do that. ...

“... An [org hosting an] online community may decide to close their community altogether deciding that the risk is not worth the benefit. Who really loses when we threaten the opportunities to build meaningful communities that can have a positive impact on people’s lives?”

– @scottmoore.bsky.social

“... We kind of dispute that because some of the comments are [you] pretending to be a trauma counselor and maybe that could actually cause some harm. … I don’t think they thought enough about community impact until after the community screamed ‘ouch.'” -Logan MacGregor

“So much of what [the researchers] did to try to prevent harm was to say ‘comments like this happen all the time online, we don’t think that it’s going to cause individual trauma.’ ...

“... Because if you don’t have a satisfactory job, in my opinion, if you’re not happy working, that’s the time to question your job. But if you can have a job that you’re satisfied with and have the impact you want, it doesn’t matter where they put you.” -Craig Dalrymple