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post Mon 16th November 2009, 11:15pm
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post Tue 17th November 2009, 4:09pm
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Community poison. Frustration machine.


But that's just a natural evolution of a community. After 8 years of existence and incorporation of users of every kind, a community which becomes this big is bound to cause the aforementioned problems. The hardcore players take control, and start frustrating all the others. In the end most of the players will be out and the hardcore ones will eat each other.
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post Tue 17th November 2009, 6:26pm
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Community poison. Frustration machine.


But that's just a natural evolution of a community. After 8 years of existence and incorporation of users of every kind, a community which becomes this big is bound to cause the aforementioned problems. The hardcore players take control, and start frustrating all the others. In the end most of the players will be out and the hardcore ones will eat each other.


Strange to label encyclopedia writers as "players". You did just do that, right?
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WikiWatch   The German wikipedia is broken   Mon 16th November 2009, 11:15pm
thekohser   Translation of one bit which I liked:   Tue 17th November 2009, 3:38am
carbuncle   Translation of one bit which I liked: Coincide...   Tue 17th November 2009, 5:14pm
Text   But that's just a natural evolution of a com...   Tue 17th November 2009, 4:09pm
thekohser   But that's just a natural evolution of a co...   Tue 17th November 2009, 6:26pm
Text   What term would you use? The first time i read s...   Wed 18th November 2009, 3:41pm
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