Posted in reply to Joe Crawford ( Hot Tubbing an Online Community by Caleb John Clark, 1999)

It is an interesting topic, and it has been something I have been thinking about on and off foe a while. Because the communities that work are usually the ones that have limited size. Things like ‘everybody with the personal website’ or ‘Twitter’ or ‘Tumblr’ or even ‘all queer people’ don’t feel like a community.

And also when there is too many people it is hard to know everybody. Once the influx of people gets too big, one stops keeping track of it and simply prioritise the old people.

I have never though that the solution to that was to nuke the communities that don’t work and start anew. I would expect that people would leave, when it stops working for them instead. But I guess I can understand the urge to don’t let something one started be taken over by the flamers.