1% rule
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#2On top of that, some percentage of users who do contribute content are just recycling/reiterating content they've seen have success in that community before. Reposts, memes, predictable opinions, etc. The number of people who actively create the culture of an online community (and, I suspect, offline communities) is pretty small.
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#3I feel like this should take spam and bots into account. I run a wiki and most edits are by bots that I rollback. I don't add captcha to not further dissuade people from contributing.
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#4> The 1% rule is often misunderstood to apply to the Internet in general, but it applies more specifically to any given Internet community.
What a broad statement
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#5I hope many of us internalized this early. It's not very accurate, but I try to think of this as meaning that on average, everything I post online is being read by a minimum of 99 people, multiplied by either the upvote count on the thread (for HN) or the number of active followers I have (for Twitter). It has helped me to always think this to myself before posting something.
I probably am biased from the culture on these sites but it still seems all to easy for people to still get dragged into fruitless discussions, overly emotional flamewars and trollbait that they will regret later.
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#6I've been doing a Twitch development stream (a couple hours a day working on a dwarf fortress game in Rust). In the stream, I'll have about 90% lurkers, 10% people who engage in chat and about 1% that have sent me actual PRs for the code :-) It's very interesting. (BTW, I should be streaming now... Bad Mike...)
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#7I really like this reddit post about this topic: Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
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#8Hello, hundred people that'll read this comment! I can't hear what you have to say, but hopefully it's not too scathing.
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#9I had the feeling that there are more creators lately, but since Smartphones and mobile internet got big, there are also magnitudes more lurkers online, so it's probably still right
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#10I feel like this should take spam and bots into account. I run a wiki and most edits are by bots that I rollback. I don't add captcha to not further dissuade people from contributing.
Add a hidden checkbox. If checked, it's definitely a bot. You get rid of more than 99.99% of bots, from my experience.