• Mutual exchange of information between the two parties - Prisoner’s dilemma of information exchange # Prisoner’s dilemma

    • Destruction by its Watchers
      • Thereby causing loss to the SOC called “trust”.
        • selfish Propagate information about the person performing the action to other communities.
  • Limitations of the network an individual can maintain

    • The number of edges in the graph, expressed in rank per vertex
    • But this may not be appropriate.
    • Limitations of personal information output
      • There is no unlimited increase in both quantity and quality of writing.
      • There should be a quantity limit, a quality limit, and a tradeoff constraint between the two.
    • Limitations of personal information input
      • The mailing list flow is too high to keep up.”
      • Too many notifications.”
  • Hooks into the community

    • Hook model
    • trigger
      • Why do communities die when information stops flowing?
      • Because there is no trigger.
      • Communities where “that annual thing” exists even if there is usually no information will continue to exist.
      • That’s because there are other triggers than “triggers by someone writing in”.
    • retention
    • What is the utility to be gained?
      • An opportunity to think
      • Providing your knowledge to someone else’s needs makes them happy, a mutually beneficial effect that rejoices in this.
      • The joy of combining someone else’s ideas with your own to create something interesting and new.
      • Real benefits from needs/seeds matching
      • approval
      • get information
        • A community with many players who expect to get information one way or the other as a utility is in a state of free-riding on the sender of the information, and will collapse at a time when the well-meaning sender of information is exhausted.
  • Community and information exchange


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