DISQUS

Community Guy: The evolution of the community “industry”

  • ifarmer · 1 year ago
    That's really interesting .. as we know that 1% do all the talking. It's very brave to push out half of them to create a vacuum. I'm sure most communities would be afraid that this would stop conversations.
  • Jake McKee · 1 year ago
    Yeah, granted in Yahoo's case, their 1% may or may not be "real" users, and I think a strategy of "pushing out" is really really tricky and needs to be thought out VERY well. Definitely a "do no try this at home" move.
  • Jenna Woodul · 1 year ago
    Why/how are they pushed out? If their "leadership" is not sociable and keeps other people from saying anything (for fear of being flamed, for example, I could see pushing them out as a good strategy.
  • Miles Sims · 1 year ago
    Interesting... I wonder if this ties to some of the comments made in the measuring community session where a number of the participants (YouTube, Google, LinkedIn) all mentioned finding ways to measure and engage the 9-percenters.

    I guess the real question here is can you really grow the 1-percenters or does the community grow more through the natural turn-over and back-fill of that group?