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Your "solution" to the problem of a community-driven website is to stop making it a community-driven website and call in the administrators? Isn't that pretty m
by Kelevra 19y ago
Your "solution" to the problem of a community-driven website is to stop making it a community-driven website and call in the administrators? Isn't that pretty much giving up?
- danteembermage 19y agoI think an important distinction to make is that there is no such thing as 100% community driven. Certainly reddit is a lot closer to 100% than Hacker News which is a lot closer than CNN, but no matter what there are admin involved. For example reddit decided that posting ascii pictures of Fry was funny... once. Then they changed the rules so you couldn't. At Hacker News the admin have been pretty up front about what they will do; edit titles, penalize stupid people as defined by the admin, etc. I think the threat of intervention does a lot even if it's turned off at the moment. I'm sure it's in the cards to keep the site as good as possible and that objective is correlated with being community driven as much as possible, but there's a trade-off there and I'd bet sometimes it goes the other way.
- derefr 19y agoAhem: http://img.4chan.com/b/ http://img.4chan.com/b/ (Even mentioning this, though, I theorize that, in the future, there will be a sort of Godwin's law that prevents sociologists from bringing up 4chan.)