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Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) by Angostura on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:14AM (#21701838)
They count. But they aren't subject to network effects. There's no 'I can't moderate this site, because none of my friends use it' issues.
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Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) by hombre_fatal on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:38AM (#21702488)
Of course there are network effects for moderators. One major reason people volunteer to moderate Wikipedia is because it's in such ubiquitous use.

A fork of Wikipedia with no community is just a content mirror and, because of network effects, you'll have an incredibly hard time attracting anyone to help out with it when they can just go to Wikipedia.

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