I was from Wisdm. It was different…quite a bit more relaxed. Very little moderating. We weren’t very nice to people who…. well, couldn’t put a simple sentence together, or came on like, “I thing im pegnate how did this happen?” but they weren’t tossed out by the owners. They were (I’m ashamed to say) hounded to death by we members and quit! Except for bob_. That was his first question. We chalked it up to he couldn’t speak English so good, and let him stay.
It was much more colorful and crazy at times. Serious at times, crazy at times. More bitchy infighting (among the men) than most of us cared for, so the moderation here is refreshing in that way, but it sure took some getting used to.
So many social sites are dominated by teenagers, so that’s what makes Fluther and Wisdm alike. We’re both dominated by adults but Wisdm had a more “live and let live” policy.
Oh…and Martin, our founder, posted a deal (not long before the site tanked) where someone had done a survey of Social Sites. We came in second. After some place called “Fluther.” The only reason was that one of the tenants of Wisdm was to ask a question that could be answered with a Yes or a No, and the conversations would go from there. It was pretty cool, and even challenging at times to ask a question that had a Yes or No response, yet elicited a strong reaction. My first “success” was with “Am I a bad Mom because I made my kids sit down and watch Monty Python when they were teenagers?”
Then, in the “More,” I explained their reaction and how much they ended up loving it!