Most online communities feel impotent

# Do communities necessarily need not-busy people to curate them?
# Do communities necessarily need not-busy people to curate them
## Related
- [[Polymath Project]]
- Observing the difference between the Progress Studies Slack and The Portal Discord - Portal discord has moderators



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Spectech Community design

Fully open online discussions are low quality because of trust and context

A month long online conference is a neat concept

Creating an internet-first community that’s not just a bunch of bullshit in a channel

Online conferences have different affordances than in person conferences

Focused network building is a valuable early step for riffing on ARPA

The fact that the torah is always in Hebrew is powerful

How can you claim to be making a new field if you are writing for a general audience?

It is hard to engage with long pieces outside your community

Premature formalization kills projects

# Most online communities feel impotent
### Hypotheses
- No norms or expectations 
- No shared goals 
- I don’t understand how I’m supposed to interact
- No way to create personal connection - it’s basically all a presentation on a stage
- Quickly go beyond Dunbar’s number before there’s any culture transmission
- The ‘introduction’ thread on slack feels like screaming into a void and there’s no way to connect someone to their 
- Feels like everybody is just trying to get attention and be an influencer 
- Fomo and/or overwhelm at all the things that happen when you’re not there
- [[Fully open online discussions are low quality because of trust and context]]

### Examples of historical communities that seem to have worked
- [[Ben Frankin’s Junto]]
- [[Royal Society of the Arts]] (see [[Arts and Minds]])
- [[Tuxedo Park]]
- Early [[Y Combinator]]
- Open source communities 

### Related
- [[Mark McGranaghan conversation 19 Jun 2020]]
- [[Do communities necessarily need not-busy people to curate them?]]
- [[Third Places as community builder]]
- [[Presenting to peers regularly encourages you to get shit together]]



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