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.
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.