Can there by such a thing as online cliques?

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This site is an example:
http://www.retrojunk.com

or WP?...
nope...don't see it at all...

a site i go on, has an element which has been dubbed the 'monothought clique' - its members can be easily identified as vigourously denying its existance

I also post on two music forums which are incredibly cliquey - as in 'don't bother starting a new topic unless you already have thousands of posts because nobody will respond'. Loads of in jokes. I have mates who write the reviews section of the site and they always try to introduce me to other posters at gigs - this does not tend to go well, they are always like 'do I know you?' *gives withering look*.

So in other words, yes.

Yes I am a classic lurker, I've lurked on more forums than I've ever posted to. With that experience alone I say internet cliques sometimes can be more exclusionary than their 'IRL' counterparts. I always find it impossible to pick up the social current on most forums. Though, I don't think WP is that cliquey and I've lurked lots I post occasionally on a few music forums and a political one, and they're way more groupish and all that crap. It's kind of everywhere though, if it's active forum there's probably some kind of clique no matter how minor.

Can there by such a thing as online cliques? absolutley, and most message boards are filled with them