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This is a very noble aspiration, but many benevolent stewards of online communities have tried and failed; it is a historically intractable problem. I think th
by gwc 18y ago
This is a very noble aspiration, but many benevolent stewards of online communities have tried and failed; it is a historically intractable problem.
I think the OP is asking what is the "what it takes"?
- parenthesis 18y agoThere is the difference between HN and reddit/digg etc. that pg and co. do HN for love, whereas, whatever other motives they may have, the other sites are trying to make money.
- hpr122i 18y agoClassic counterexample: kuro5hin.
- tokipin 18y agoi wonder if performing a restart... something like what The Architect from The Matrix talks about... i wonder if simply restarting the entire software would help a bit. in other words, deleting the entire database and starting from scratch every n years. meaning the front page would be blank, people would have to 'register' again with their karma at 1 if it takes making a new community, a restart might be a good approximation, among having other effects (eg the effect on karma whores)