(That said, I get that this subthread was about your particular experience and if the issue was lack of good, positive content it makes sense for the above model to apply less.
I do think there’s an alternate model which might or might not apply to your experience, which is:
‘What matters is whether the good posters come faster than they leave, independent of how much mediocre there is.’
i.e. if a site has at least a core group of good content generators, it’s easier to pick those people out of a crowd, even if there’s a lot of mediocre content. And it doesn’t take much nitpicking for good posters to feel like they’d rather be someplace else)
(I agree with this and made the uncle comment before seeing it. Also, my experience wasn’t like that most of the time; I think it was mainly that way toward the end of LW 1.0.)
(That said, I get that this subthread was about your particular experience and if the issue was lack of good, positive content it makes sense for the above model to apply less.
I do think there’s an alternate model which might or might not apply to your experience, which is:
‘What matters is whether the good posters come faster than they leave, independent of how much mediocre there is.’
i.e. if a site has at least a core group of good content generators, it’s easier to pick those people out of a crowd, even if there’s a lot of mediocre content. And it doesn’t take much nitpicking for good posters to feel like they’d rather be someplace else)
(I agree with this and made the uncle comment before seeing it. Also, my experience wasn’t like that most of the time; I think it was mainly that way toward the end of LW 1.0.)