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Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens
Par Winzell wrote:
>
>That's for a smaller community, though, that's precisely how I ran
>my Mud for a long time. The question is what you do when you have to
>write up guidelines for your customer support people when somebody
>calls up, irate, demanding that some content they find offensive is
>immediately removed... or... wether perhaps communities should simply
>be kept separate, at a manageable size.
>
>I guess scaling of peer pressure is one of the key issues in this
>debate.
>
I've always thought that diversity is antithetical to community building.
Strong communities form because of commonly held values. The more
diverse a community is the less commonly held values it has. The less
commonly held values a community has, the less value individuals place
in being a member of that community. The less value individuals place
in a community, the less productive that community becomes.
'Productive' being defined as the rate a community produces anything
of value. As diversity increases and commonly held values decrease a
community will reach a point where the only commonly held value is
diversity. At that point it ceases to function as a tool of production,
it just exists.
Peer pressure does scale with size, it does not scale with diversity.
So the issue is one of managing diversity, not necessarily size.
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- Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens, (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens,
Jon Lambert jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com, Fri 07 Apr 2000, 15:19 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens,
Jon Lambert jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com, Sun 09 Apr 2000, 14:13 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens,
Kristen L. Koster koster@eden.com, Sun 09 Apr 2000, 16:53 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens,
Ola Fosheim Grøstad olag@ifi.uio.no, Mon 10 Apr 2000, 06:50 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens,
Tess Lowe tess@havensong.com, Mon 10 Apr 2000, 06:50 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens,
Matthew Mihaly the_logos@achaea.mudservices.com, Mon 10 Apr 2000, 06:50 GMT
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