1. This was really cool, by @reddit. Users got to change pixels on a 1k sq grid, with a 5m cooldown. http://i.imgur.com/EZJsdqC.png
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2. The final product serves as a neat map of things about which the Internet is enthusiastic. But it is not a representative map!
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3. Different communities were competing for scarce space on that grid; not everything made it on. Two major factors determined winners.
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4. Successful communities had two features. First, they were able to overcome collective action problems + get members defending pixels.
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5. This, in an *organized* manner. Second, they coordinated with other communities to resolve conflicts over potential space uses.
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6. The communities that won out, then, tended to be united by shared passion, and to have healthy social norms. Raw size was not important.
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7. In light of this, note that despite their size and froth ideological subreddits had effectively zero presence on the final result.
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8. This leaves me hopeful that sick ideologically-driven movements will generally founder in confrontations against healthier communities.
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But the healthy communities have terrible taste. I want to be friends with the Unregistered Hypercam people though!
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ha! I wonder about the causal structure there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE2iRgDhtFo …
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