[HN Gopher] The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2...
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       The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010)
        
       Author : yamrzou
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2025-01-04 21:53 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | yamrzou wrote:
       | Previous discussion:
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       |  _The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Online Communities_ --
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665 (2010, 35 comments)
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       | https://archive.ph/q8DlQ
        
         | pockmarked19 wrote:
         | That's a different discussion, because this one has the added
         | benefit of being from a cornell.edu domain! /s
         | 
         | The submission here is also more of a discussion of that post,
         | so this thread would be a discussion of a discussion, not
         | direct comments on the article.
        
       | finnh wrote:
       | Doesn't this complaint assume a strict stack-ranking of
       | contributors, where the "top" person has no reason to stay and
       | thus leaves, and then the new top does the same, etc?
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       | Which is not at all how actual humans and relationships work. We
       | each bring different value to the table, along multiple
       | dimensions.
        
       | zcrossing wrote:
       | We should turn this into a discussion about why Bluesky is toxic.
        
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