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Once a year is about the right frequency. Recurring stories is one way in which a community shares and perpetuates its culture with newcomers. Some of them are
by Pyxl101 12y ago
Once a year is about the right frequency. Recurring stories is one way in which a community shares and perpetuates its culture with newcomers. Some of them are a delight to read on that yearly cadence, like the SR-71 story about a pilot and his copilot becoming a crew.
That said, it's wise to consider the frequency with which such things appear, individually and in total. Too much repetition and focus on memes becomes dysfunctionally self-obsessive. Not sure what the right answer is, but I can probably deal with once per year, short time on front page, and small % of total content.
- carleverett 12y agoWould you mind linking the SR-71 story? Somehow I never saw that.
- teraflop 12y ago"The Ultimate Ground Speed Check": http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041 http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912...
- carleverett 12y agoThat was beautiful, thank you.
- masklinn 12y agoAn other neat one is "sand won't save you this time", from the delightful "Ignition!" via the Things I Won't Work With series (well worth reading in and of itself, even for non-chemists): http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time.php http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_sa...
- digi_owl 12y agoGotta "love" something that is highly reactive to test engineers... The book also holds, iirc, a passage about a group of chemists sitting down for lunch when something on one of the shelves start getting uppity. They barely had time to dive under the table before the container started bouncing around the room.
- geuis 12y agoThis is an interesting idea. Have a system where a community can mark something as important, and to have it automatically reposted at preset intervals. Community members could be allowed to additionally repost, or the system can politely say it's already archived and will be shared again on such & such date. Use it as a way to reinforce community history.
- seqizz 12y agoDifferent form of "stickies" I guess. Except no one reads stickies.
- geuis 12y agoRight. I'd imagine it working well on reddit where content is just reposted automatically and receives normal upvoting. Makes it more organic.
- jen729w 12y agoSounds like we already have exactly such a system, no?
- fabulist 12y agoPeople forget culture is the original technology.