Believe it or not but the ideal "community" size is somewhere around 150 people.
So if you are a city of 100,000. Figuring out how to build neighbourhoods the size of about 150 people with max of 500 is your goal. Or highrises are supposed to be about this size. But fail because a highrise isn't about community at all.
If you're a business with 1000 employees. You probably want 5-6 divisions.
If you're in the military, we're talking about your 'company'. Platoons are often a bit smaller and meant to make the soldiers more tight.
If you're in the vidya games, you want to divide players up so that they are in ~150 people groups.
>On that note, I am glad that HN is still a niche community and hope stays that way, and UI becomes even more crappy so people from other cultures and walks of life don't start joining in.
HN surpassed this long ago. HN is no longer a 'community' and I've seen the influence waves sweep through HN multiple times now.
>There are negatives to this, but not huge because there are other platforms for general population. (Imagine a forum for doctors to discuss new treatments and everyone can join in, soon it'd be r/AskDoc and of almost no value to actual doctors).
What you are literally asking for is an echo chamber. You want to filter out non-doctors. Or in HN's case? Filter out X? That's totally not what you want to do.
My grandpa had a radio and 1 newspaper to keep up to date. He lived in an echo chamber of epic proportions, he had to believe whatever they told him. What social media did is that you can literally go to the source. You can literally see what your politicians are saying without anything in between. We live in the least echo chamber period ever.
Yet echo chambers are such a huge issue today. January 6 insurrection is one of the best examples because it's such a huge factor.
Obama's own words: "Right here, in the United States of America, we just saw a sitting president deny the clear results of an election and help incite a violent insurrection at the nation’s capital."
So in Obama's mind he sees January 6, a group of unarmed hooligans in costumes ransacking some offices for a few hours, as an insurrection. This doesn't meet the definition of insurrection. That would be the dumbest insurrection in the history of insurrections.
Insurrection noun: an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence:
"We're going to go unarmed into the capitol building and overthrow the most powerful government in history by ransacking nancy pelosi's office." lol what?
In economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_optimal_firm_size
Civil: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003801...
Believe it or not but the ideal "community" size is somewhere around 150 people.
So if you are a city of 100,000. Figuring out how to build neighbourhoods the size of about 150 people with max of 500 is your goal. Or highrises are supposed to be about this size. But fail because a highrise isn't about community at all.
If you're a business with 1000 employees. You probably want 5-6 divisions.
If you're in the military, we're talking about your 'company'. Platoons are often a bit smaller and meant to make the soldiers more tight.
If you're in the vidya games, you want to divide players up so that they are in ~150 people groups.
>On that note, I am glad that HN is still a niche community and hope stays that way, and UI becomes even more crappy so people from other cultures and walks of life don't start joining in.
HN surpassed this long ago. HN is no longer a 'community' and I've seen the influence waves sweep through HN multiple times now.
>There are negatives to this, but not huge because there are other platforms for general population. (Imagine a forum for doctors to discuss new treatments and everyone can join in, soon it'd be r/AskDoc and of almost no value to actual doctors).
What you are literally asking for is an echo chamber. You want to filter out non-doctors. Or in HN's case? Filter out X? That's totally not what you want to do.
My grandpa had a radio and 1 newspaper to keep up to date. He lived in an echo chamber of epic proportions, he had to believe whatever they told him. What social media did is that you can literally go to the source. You can literally see what your politicians are saying without anything in between. We live in the least echo chamber period ever.
Yet echo chambers are such a huge issue today. January 6 insurrection is one of the best examples because it's such a huge factor.
Obama's own words: "Right here, in the United States of America, we just saw a sitting president deny the clear results of an election and help incite a violent insurrection at the nation’s capital."
So in Obama's mind he sees January 6, a group of unarmed hooligans in costumes ransacking some offices for a few hours, as an insurrection. This doesn't meet the definition of insurrection. That would be the dumbest insurrection in the history of insurrections.
Insurrection noun: an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence:
"We're going to go unarmed into the capitol building and overthrow the most powerful government in history by ransacking nancy pelosi's office." lol what?