I stopped commenting on slatestarcodex because they disabled anonymous accounts and I didn’t feel like signing up because the comments weren’t that important for me anyway, plus there’s enough comments down there already that there’s too much noise to communicate anything.
Unfortunately Scott doesn’t seem to have a question that asks how much other blog posts besides SSC his readers read but I would estimate that number to be high.
There is a certain optimal size range for an online community: too few people and it’s stagnant, too many people and it’s a cacophony of noise. Successful communities solve this problem by subdividing (see e.g. Reddit).
I think SSC is already too big and the subdivision process is starting, e.g. there is an SSC subreddit which syphons off some comments, plus there’s Slack, etc.
I stopped commenting on slatestarcodex because they disabled anonymous accounts and I didn’t feel like signing up because the comments weren’t that important for me anyway, plus there’s enough comments down there already that there’s too much noise to communicate anything.
I also don’t think that Scott gets much motivation from additional comments. The value of a commenting is higher in other blogs or LW.
Hmm, true.
I’m not sure you understood my other point, though—using the statistics for the ssc survey might contain a bias because see reasons above.
Unfortunately Scott doesn’t seem to have a question that asks how much other blog posts besides SSC his readers read but I would estimate that number to be high.
This.
There is a certain optimal size range for an online community: too few people and it’s stagnant, too many people and it’s a cacophony of noise. Successful communities solve this problem by subdividing (see e.g. Reddit).
I think SSC is already too big and the subdivision process is starting, e.g. there is an SSC subreddit which syphons off some comments, plus there’s Slack, etc.