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/r/AskHistorians is a case study in well-managed community at scale. Sadly I don’t think it would work for standalone business that had to pay the bills.
by brookst 2y ago
/r/AskHistorians is a case study in well-managed community at scale. Sadly I don’t think it would work for standalone business that had to pay the bills.
- dredmorbius 2y agoAs good as AH is, and it is, it's still got some grave issues. I'd bailed after links to LibGen / SciHub were getting my comments moderated. Which incidentally points at a problem with moderation: no matter how well-intended, or overall effective, people take issue with their contributions being penalised and removed, especially if they sense unfairness. (Also, especially, if there's a social- or political-group bias detected, again, regardless of merits, but that be 'nother can of worms.) I'm left with David Weinberger's observation: "Conversation doesn't scale". <https://dweinberger.medium.com/the-social-web-before-social-networking-a-report-from-2003-3e8fe109cf0c https://dweinberger.medium.com/the-social-web-before-social-...>