Comments on: Musings on what makes a community succeed http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Finance Geek » Sweet to tweet http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-4532 Finance Geek » Sweet to tweet Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:55:19 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-4532 [...] the thinking of Stephen Johnson as expressed in his fine book Emergence.  I’ve written before about his theories applied to social communities.  The following is an excerpt from that post: [...] [...] the thinking of Stephen Johnson as expressed in his fine book Emergence.  I’ve written before about his theories applied to social communities.  The following is an excerpt from that post: [...]

]]> By: mspoke http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-693 mspoke Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:46:33 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-693 The one thing that is pretty evident in many of the online communities I take part in is the increasing emergence of 'keyboard warriors'. They tend to dominate discussion and will abuse people who do not agree with them. Is this a bad thing? In some ways yes, respect is a necessary thing to have both online and offline but I think we rarely get to see people's true personalities in these online communities. Is this another reason for more offline interaction within these online communites? The one thing that is pretty evident in many of the online communities I take part in is the increasing emergence of ‘keyboard warriors’. They tend to dominate discussion and will abuse people who do not agree with them.

Is this a bad thing? In some ways yes, respect is a necessary thing to have both online and offline but I think we rarely get to see people’s true personalities in these online communities. Is this another reason for more offline interaction within these online communites?

]]> By: mspoke http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-10596 mspoke Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:46:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-10596 The one thing that is pretty evident in many of the online communities I take part in is the increasing emergence of 'keyboard warriors'. They tend to dominate discussion and will abuse people who do not agree with them. Is this a bad thing? In some ways yes, respect is a necessary thing to have both online and offline but I think we rarely get to see people's true personalities in these online communities. Is this another reason for more offline interaction within these online communites? The one thing that is pretty evident in many of the online communities I take part in is the increasing emergence of ‘keyboard warriors’. They tend to dominate discussion and will abuse people who do not agree with them.

Is this a bad thing? In some ways yes, respect is a necessary thing to have both online and offline but I think we rarely get to see people’s true personalities in these online communities. Is this another reason for more offline interaction within these online communites?

]]> By: alan patrick http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-692 alan patrick Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:38:51 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-692 Nic Emergence is a good book, I can refer you to some others in case you need more grist to your mill :) Re your points: (i) Size matters :) - Social Nets switch from small world (fairly egalitarian) to scale free - very hit based. (ii) Also, typically with size comes importance, thus economic interest and then the dissipation of collaborative to commercial and cheating behaviours (ii) to continue working, all though rely on trust / identity / etc mechanism that can signal your profile without us knowing each other. Friends of Friends is one way, but runs out of steam as it grows so profile signals (rating, stars etc) is another (iii) ie status garnered is a big thing - thats why Technorati Links, Flickr Old Skool, eBay stars etc are so very important, and gaming them is so tempting! I shall have to blog on this.... Nic

Emergence is a good book, I can refer you to some others in case you need more grist to your mill :)

Re your points:

(i) Size matters :) – Social Nets switch from small world (fairly egalitarian) to scale free – very hit based.
(ii) Also, typically with size comes importance, thus economic interest and then the dissipation of collaborative to commercial and cheating behaviours
(ii) to continue working, all though rely on trust / identity / etc mechanism that can signal your profile without us knowing each other. Friends of Friends is one way, but runs out of steam as it grows so profile signals (rating, stars etc) is another
(iii) ie status garnered is a big thing – thats why Technorati Links, Flickr Old Skool, eBay stars etc are so very important, and gaming them is so tempting!

I shall have to blog on this….

]]> By: alan patrick http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-10595 alan patrick Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:38:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2007/02/01/musings-on-what-makes-a-community-succeed/#comment-10595 Nic Emergence is a good book, I can refer you to some others in case you need more grist to your mill :) Re your points: (i) Size matters :) - Social Nets switch from small world (fairly egalitarian) to scale free - very hit based. (ii) Also, typically with size comes importance, thus economic interest and then the dissipation of collaborative to commercial and cheating behaviours (ii) to continue working, all though rely on trust / identity / etc mechanism that can signal your profile without us knowing each other. Friends of Friends is one way, but runs out of steam as it grows so profile signals (rating, stars etc) is another (iii) ie status garnered is a big thing - thats why Technorati Links, Flickr Old Skool, eBay stars etc are so very important, and gaming them is so tempting! I shall have to blog on this.... Nic

Emergence is a good book, I can refer you to some others in case you need more grist to your mill :)

Re your points:

(i) Size matters :) – Social Nets switch from small world (fairly egalitarian) to scale free – very hit based.
(ii) Also, typically with size comes importance, thus economic interest and then the dissipation of collaborative to commercial and cheating behaviours
(ii) to continue working, all though rely on trust / identity / etc mechanism that can signal your profile without us knowing each other. Friends of Friends is one way, but runs out of steam as it grows so profile signals (rating, stars etc) is another
(iii) ie status garnered is a big thing – thats why Technorati Links, Flickr Old Skool, eBay stars etc are so very important, and gaming them is so tempting!

I shall have to blog on this….

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