I guess the question body wasn't clear enough, because that's not what I meant. My bad if so - I just rephrased the part in parentheses to make it clearer.
I do not find a lack of clarity, but rather a misunderstanding of the medium. Human discussion takes place where you find humans. Online discussion forums are not human, but rather software. The entire appeal is that it isn't "human". It is something else entirely. A change in how the "black box" is implemented under the hood does not alter the medium itself.
"The entire appeal is that it isn't "human"" - yes, part of the appeal is perhaps that the medium isn't human, but also that the message IS still human, right? And that is the combination I'm talking about.
