Those are all concerns I share. I don’t have solutions either. I feel like my choice is to either build the website despite the lack of solutions and the high risk—or settle for not having anything that does what I want.
If I tried to do research on how to make websites grow, I would expect to encounter a lot of advice that’s based on survivorship bias, and therefore unreliable. (I mostly expect that luck is a/the dominant factor.) Do you think research on that would produce helpful results?
Moderation, on the other hand, is probably something that I could start with some research on, to see what might or might not be possible/helpful.
Well, I still don’t have any experience with this. But maybe possible avenues include:
Looking into moderation rules.
Including some kind of reputation/point/reward system, and other methods to keep your users engaged.
Tracking metrics on the growth of the Site, and ideally having some advance expectations/plans on how to respond to different rates of growth/decline.
A more radical approach might be to give up the phase 2 and beyond in their entirety, and settle for a target audience of people close enough to you that you can reasonably trust them.
The survivorship bias is a very valid point, but [not doing research on how to make websites grow] is also a poor strategy. Personally I’d still look into the advice, but I’m afraid what you’re trying to do is simply very difficult.
Those are all concerns I share. I don’t have solutions either. I feel like my choice is to either build the website despite the lack of solutions and the high risk—or settle for not having anything that does what I want.
If I tried to do research on how to make websites grow, I would expect to encounter a lot of advice that’s based on survivorship bias, and therefore unreliable. (I mostly expect that luck is a/the dominant factor.) Do you think research on that would produce helpful results?
Moderation, on the other hand, is probably something that I could start with some research on, to see what might or might not be possible/helpful.
Well, I still don’t have any experience with this. But maybe possible avenues include:
Looking into moderation rules.
Including some kind of reputation/point/reward system, and other methods to keep your users engaged.
Tracking metrics on the growth of the Site, and ideally having some advance expectations/plans on how to respond to different rates of growth/decline.
A more radical approach might be to give up the phase 2 and beyond in their entirety, and settle for a target audience of people close enough to you that you can reasonably trust them.
The survivorship bias is a very valid point, but [not doing research on how to make websites grow] is also a poor strategy. Personally I’d still look into the advice, but I’m afraid what you’re trying to do is simply very difficult.