18
votes
Please help me find a post/article posted here on tildes
Hello!
I've tried looking for it, but I can't find it. It was an essay about how a large increase of new members alienates the community feeling. How the income of stranger must be kept low so they can become "not a stranger" and how many strangers at once stop that from happening because people know each other less.
Unfortunately I can't find it at all. Does anyone still remember/have it saved?
Thank you very much!
Was it this post?
I remember there was a lot of discussion around June about how a community should respond to a user influx so it might be hard to pin down otherwise, but I distinctly remember the linked article here for some reason and although there were a lot of comments with a similar sentiment my rudimentary searching doesn't turn up this specific topic all that much.
Oh my gods yes! It was! Thank you very much!
I think that might be a bit too vague to pin down the exact article or post you're referring to. Especially since the concept of Eternal September (a flood of new users overwhelming the existing culture of an online forum and its ability to enforce existing norms) is an old one, and has been written about extensively over the years by a great many authors.
Someone else found it. I didn't remember the Killing part of the title, which made the search difficult.
If you remember any phrasing at all of the original article, even something like "phrasing at all", you can search google with quotes, and filter only tildes results.
Unfortunately it was a linked article so I don't know if searching like that would have found it. But someone else did! So it's all well.
I have a request in a similar vein. I remember a post/comment linking to a blog post talking about growing toxicity within online communities (specifically in the context of discord), where rules lawyers cause increasingly specific rules to be written which sucks the fun out of a community. After a short while the nice, friendly people who really gave a community its personality start quietly leaving, making the community a shell of its former self.
Would greatly appreciate if someone could drop the link to that again if you know what I’m describing- definitely something I want bookmarked.
I don't know if it's the exact article you're referring to, since it's not about Discord specifically, but Eevee's On A Technicality hits on a lot of those same points, and is a bit of a foundational document here on Tildes.
That’s exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
Interesting read, thanks. I've definitely come to realize the necessity of keeping things in check after watching more than one online community go to hell.