Competitive Social Strategies

Differentiate your community offerings by determining basic cultural stances.

  • Moderation vs. unfettered interaction

    • Moderators increase signal to noise ratio
    • Sloppy moderation can be seen as censorship
    • Moderator costs are increasing, and volunteers are not free of costs

  • Anything goes vs. tight control

    • Each extreme has costs and liabilities
    • Partitioning protects a range of behaviors
One thing to avoid is to become the personification of control issues...


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