this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2024
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There is a big difference between slow growth over time though (say a few percent of the existing user base every month) and a giant influx of new users (say 10 times the existing user base in a single month). The latter destroys everything the community was about since nobody knows the unwritten rules and new users copy bad behaviour from other new users.
Wouldn't it help to make the rules written, then enforce them?
Reading rules is different from living them (getting used to them)
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