On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:28:42AM -0400, Mark Christensen wrote:
My overall view is that we ought not to become a
bounded set movement.
This is my primary concern, and I think the distinction between hard and
soft security is of secondary importance. If we were to become more
concerned about membership in our club than our mission to build a free
encyclopedia, I'm fairly confident that our movement will slowly fall
apart.
My experience in similar online communities says that what will happen is
that the fresh new blood will dry up, and, after a couple years of seeming
health, the community will be anemic, exclusive, parochial, snobbish, and
go in for a lot of navel-gazing instead of working on it's grand project.
Jonathan
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