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I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon, where a small group emerge from a userbase, gain control of the platform and start applying their preferences to
by phpnode 10y ago
I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon, where a small group emerge from a userbase, gain control of the platform and start applying their preferences to the detriment of the average user. It strikes me as very similar to the problems stack overflow faces.
- sageikosa 10y agoPlutocracy? You have to have a decent amount of free time and resources initially to value spending time working on Wikipedia articles enough to gain working knowledge and social connections in the system to advance enough to advance broader agendas, or enforce narrower biases.