The Taste Blog

Nick Carr makes an observation about problems that occur in “self-regulating, super-democratic communities” as they grow. An excerpt:

What we’ve seen happen with self-regulating communities, both real and virtual, is that they go through a brief initial period during which their performance improves - a kind of honeymoon period, when people are on their best behavior and rascals are quickly exposed and put to rout - but then, at some point, their performance turns downward. They begin,…