recent LJ controversies, Three Weeks for DW

[charmian]

Been busy translating some stuff, although I am planning to put up some links about the latest Facebook events.

Hmm, at this point a lot of my thoughts about LJ's latest scandal regarding the Driving Revenue/Outboundlinks stuff can be summed up by this animated .gif. Here are tips on dealing with the issue, in case you haven't heard already.

Also, there's a comm on DW dedicated to creating exclusive content for DW for three weeks. Since most of the content in this blog is original and not cross-posted to anywhere else, I guess you could say I'm already 'participating.' Anyhow, this campaign makes me wonder whether it is true that one of the impediments to DW growth is that there is a dearth of original content on DW?

Poll #2875

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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What do you think the main factor impeding/slowing DW growth is?

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Lack of DW-exclusive content
6 (10.9%)

Dearth of active comms
33 (60.0%)

Invite code system
3 (5.5%)

Insufficient publicity
1 (1.8%)

Something else which I will detail in comments
12 (21.8%)

Comments

[charmian]

Yeah, that really does seem to be the consensus, which surprised me. (The overwhelmingness of that as the response)

Perhaps that is a problem, though... Like holyschist said above, it may not be 'realistic' to assume that DW will replace LJ's social groups. But yeah, a comm is something that requires more than one person; in fact, a lot of persons. Planning a poll next on what people (well, the ones who think there is a comm dearth) think causes it.

[jackandahat]

I think it's a vicious cycle thing - the comms aren't here, they're on LJ, so people want to stay where the comms are, so the comms never grow, so people don't move, so the comms don't grow...

[charmian]

Definitely, network effects. The question is, what breaks that effect? It has been broken before, I think.