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Re:The Facebook experiment has failed by joshAg on Monday June 03, 2013 @03:48AM (#5811928)
seems you stumbled on the secret of keeping a good online community: don't let a person's contacts exceed the network's dunbar number[1].

non-default subreddits can still be quite good, but many/most/all of the default subreddits are wastelands ravaged by a silent majority of up- and down-voters while the huddled masses of commenters cling together for safety. of course, there's the same phenomenon within the commenters community, where insightful comments are buried amongst puns and prejudice and adolescent jokes that get upvoted much quicker.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

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Re:The Facebook experiment has failed by AndrewKemendo on Monday June 03, 2013 @10:59AM (#5813641)
Path tried that in the social network format but it doesn't seem to be catching on.
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Re:The Facebook experiment has failed by gavingmiller on Monday June 03, 2013 @11:24AM (#5813795)
Speculating here, but that's probably due to the fact that small and private isn't compatible with VC money.
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