How should people bargain in an online and mostly anonymous forum? A sort of reality-disconnected sense of status is all there is to bargain with, and status manipulation is more unconscious and implicit than what might be had by bargaining. I think all we can hope for is to fight and destroy those with conflicting values in communal status warfare, and then bring back the destroyed as amusing contrarians.

And foregoing the effort because it's unproductive or lowers the "sanity level" is just so very boring.