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I've always had this idea that reputation systems and enforced, systematic gatekeeping might be a way to build stronger communities. The fundamental issue of a
by esyir 5y ago
I've always had this idea that reputation systems and enforced, systematic gatekeeping might be a way to build stronger communities.
The fundamental issue of any fully open community is scale. From what I've seen, no online community really resists the swarm that comes when it goes viral. Whatever community that was there before, for all it's values and culture, gets replaced by the masses by sheer virtue of numbers.
- bena 5y agoReputation systems can be gamed. On massive sites, they reward those with the most time. Gatekeeping (or moderation) works, but like we've both already said, it only works for smaller scales.
- acover 5y agoHas weighting members by arrival order been tried? For example, the 100th member has 10x the voting power as the 1000th and so on.