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I disagree with your two main points: 1. "Once you get the design of your blog just the way you like it, you never have to change it." What if the design is j
by wyday 20y ago
I disagree with your two main points:
1. "Once you get the design of your blog just the way you like it, you never have to change it."
What if the design is just usable enough as to not draw any complaints? No complaints means perfect (or good enough) design, right? But what if, in constantly improving your design, you attract an audience that passed on your site initially. How would you know if you just let the blog go flat?
2. "Once everyone knows what everyone else thinks ... you need to redesign your site ..."
If the community is such that the people only contribute trite truisms, I don't think a redesign will do much to rectify the problem. I wouldn't know, though; I've never been to a site where everyone knows what the other users are thinking.
- Alex3917 20y agoI agree with you on point one. As for point two, I suppose you never know what each individual is thinking. However, the aggregated wisdom tends to be fairly stable over time for any given topic. For example, if the topic of Apple comes up on Digg then I pretty much know what the comments are going to say without having to click on them. If one person posts an especially insightful comment, and others recognize it as such, then chances are someone else will repost that comment in future threads about Apple. More and more people come to believe whatever is said, until someone else comes up with a new paradigm for Apple worship. So the discourse evolves, but slowly and in predictable patterns. Certainly any given individual's opinions are constantly in flux, but what matters isn't the ideas of each individual brings to the system, but rather the range of diversity and novelty of thought present in the system as a whole.