Ask HN: Is it true that any community that grows big enough, gets ruined?
"Good online communities die primarily by refusing to defend themselves.<p>Somewhere in the vastness of the Internet, it is happening even now.  It was once a well-kept garden of intelligent discussion, where knowledgeable and interested folk came, attracted by the high quality of speech they saw ongoing.  But into this garden comes a fool, and the level of discussion drops a little—or more than a little, if the fool is very prolific in their posting.  (It is worse if the fool is just articulate enough that the former inhabitants of the garden feel obliged to respond, and correct misapprehensions—for then the fool dominates conversations.)"<p><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-gardens-die-by-pacifism" rel="nofollow">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-...</a>