I think the existing system is basically an ad-hoc filtering system that meets the social goals of many othe peoplealready in it. I’m not sure whether it works for finding people who are competent when you need competent people. (It might be doing a reasonable job of filtering for some combo of “competentish and a person you want to hang out with”)
Three problems that seem like they need solving are:
1) It’s hard for newcomers (or even, “moderately-old-timers” to network their way into the existing social groups). This sucks for them.
2) I seem to run into people who do end up in one sub-community but don’t really know which the other ones are or how to find them.
3) The aforementioned “none of the subcultures actually do quite the thing I want”.
4) I worry that the system filters more for “people’s ability to proactively navigate social clusters” then it filters for any other particular kind of competence.
Definitely agreed with that.
I think the existing system is basically an ad-hoc filtering system that meets the social goals of many othe people already in it. I’m not sure whether it works for finding people who are competent when you need competent people. (It might be doing a reasonable job of filtering for some combo of “competentish and a person you want to hang out with”)
Three problems that seem like they need solving are:
1) It’s hard for newcomers (or even, “moderately-old-timers” to network their way into the existing social groups). This sucks for them.
2) I seem to run into people who do end up in one sub-community but don’t really know which the other ones are or how to find them.
3) The aforementioned “none of the subcultures actually do quite the thing I want”.
4) I worry that the system filters more for “people’s ability to proactively navigate social clusters” then it filters for any other particular kind of competence.