Wei_Dai comments on Forager Anthropology - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 29 July 2010 08:17:47PM 5 points [-]

How much experience have you had watching the trajectory of online communities?

Is anyone aware of any good write-ups on this topic? I'd be interested in seeing any insights as to why things happen the way they do, and what we can do to improve matters.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 02 August 2010 10:58:37AM *  5 points [-]

To answer my own question, here are a few write-ups I found about why the quality of an online community tends to decline over time, and what can be done about this problem:

Also, the book "The Virtual Community" that Richard Hollerith mentioned is available online, although I wasn't able to find much information in it about the specific topic at hand.