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I think most of you are missing the point of the article. He targets SO specifically in this article but really, it can be applied to almost any community on th
by archwisp 13y ago
I think most of you are missing the point of the article. He targets SO specifically in this article but really, it can be applied to almost any community on the Internet. He mentions Wikipedia specifically but I've seen the same thing repeated over and over on forums, games, and even the IETF for over a decade.
The question is: Is there a way to fix this?
- jaimebuelta 13y agoI don't think so. As an Internet community grows, it loses focus and it changes, which makes it different (not necessarily "bad", but a different one that started). Also, the increase in number of members makes more difficult to follow who the members are, which is one of the key points of making you feel "part of the community" (plus the potential increase in trolls, even if signal to noise ratio is still good) There are also stuff like repeated subjects, etc... I've been in enough communities to see the same pattern repeated. I'm not really sure it can be fixed...
- kyberias 13y agoFix what exactly?