Some binaries cannot be avoided

entropy
1 thermodynamics : a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder, that is a property of the system's state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system
broadly : the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system

2a : the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
b : a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder

3 : chaos, disorganization, randomness

Sometimes at work I run into a dry spell where I don't immediately have something due, I can take a breather of sorts, and so I take a break to read or write something outside the direct scope of my work to help break the monotony.

This can be reading general news, a scientific article, an engineering periodical, or visiting a topical website or blog. Over time, all these different entities will change in order to meet the demands placed on them for continued survival, and how they change speaks to how well the site managers are dealing with entropy.

Entropy creates an unfortunate binary where you are either fighting its effects, or going along with them. There really isn't a neutral state, because things are always changing, interacting, causing and being effected. States are always fluctuating, energy always on the move, being converted and consumed and so on and so forth.

With websites, especially ones with comment sections and a host that interacts with commentators, diligence is required in order to ensure that the scope and purpose of the website is not lost or misdirected by those without any investment in the future of the website. Thanks to the relative ease of surfing the internet, it can be a losing battle for hosts who want to try and balance freedom and content, in that someone can come along, try to mess things up, and the tools available to enforce any sort of consequence as a means of guiding behavior of such drive-by commentators are limited at best.

Trolls can create new accounts faster than they can be banned, botnets can automate the process of spamming even legitimate websites with useless content, as the internet continues to mature and take form, the forces of entropy are present and accounted for in full force.

This blog, for example, exists in its current form in large part because nobody is trying to interact with it. Oh sure, I get a handful of views on each post, but by and large it's just me writing stuff down that's on my mind. Like a digital diary of sorts, it's not interactive at all, for good or bad.

I don't have to moderate comments because nobody leaves them. I don't have to worry about losing an audience that isn't there. I also don't have the benefit of interaction, people calling out my faults and mistakes, people bringing up things I hadn't thought of, and so on and so forth.

So the effects of entropy, then, are they nonexistent because I really am in a relative vacuum of interaction?

Or is all I have chaos and disorder to begin with, I have already achieved an "inert uniformity" with the rest of the internet, and entropy simply has no further work to do?

Probably the latter.