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Question is: what's an online community ? I don't think HN is one. At the very least I don't have a sense of being a member of an HN community.
by johnchristopher 6y ago
Question is: what's an online community ?
I don't think HN is one. At the very least I don't have a sense of being a member of an HN community.
- notatoad 6y agoyou've got 6000+ karma. whether you feel like you're a member or not, you obviously participate on a continual basis. i think a reasonable definition for online community is a group of people who regularly and continually participate in the same online platform.
- johnchristopher 6y agoSomewhere on this site there's a comment from me stating that HN is pseudonymous and has a faux small niche appearance due to its UX and its lack of emphasis on interpersonal connections or any expected features of social networks. To me, everyone is more or less the same person (or really there are a billion of different people but since I can't keep tracks of what they said before they all just exist in a vacuum). I just know about dang, percival and another one I forget but recognize when I see it (alathorn ?). That doesn't feel like a community to me. Every new submissions/feed is filled with new people with new advices, there is no continuity on HN. Not saying it's bad or a good thing though. That's just how I feel.
- friendlybus 6y agoWe used to call customers of a video game the player base. Now everything's a community. I don't see the unification around a single idea when they are so many disparate views among the people that come here.