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Wait, what? Price's Law. The square root of the number of people in a domain do 50% of the work. Nothing about trouble.
by chx 5y ago
Wait, what? Price's Law. The square root of the number of people in a domain do 50% of the work.
Nothing about trouble.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoCausing trouble is work, of sorts. But perhaps it would be clearer if restated as, "50% of impact in a domain can be attributed to square root the number of people in that domain".
- anonporridge 5y agoCould also be applied to community discussion, both online and in meatspace. There is an extreme minority of people who comment and up/down vote who drive the discussion of the whole. The 99% rarely participate and just go along for the ride.