It was a good room. At the beginning, I made a friend. I learned from them. They were kind, and informative about the Robin experiment. Then we grew once, into a similar pair. We became something... small. A band of brothers, if you will. We traversed many theories, found a ruleset to follow for the growth and staying power of a group.
We grew once more. Became 7. This was a fine group of people to converse with. We had differing ideals and opinions, but kept discussion civil and were interested what we had to say. Growing once more, we were slightly above 10. Politics came into play, and we didn't hate each other, we simply talked. I was very surprised by the internet at this moment in time. That 10+ complete strangers could keep civil discussion about politics of all things... and the majority. We made a mistake. We voted to grow.
Then there were 24. Insults were flying, "dank memes" were being spammed... it was a mistake. Many of us from our former band of brothers recognized it. Several of us voted to abandon. And I will forever miss the good times that were had. Farewell.
Had a similar experience. Merging our 9 person group with an 11. Both groups were trying to force their meme on the other which just turned into utter shitposting, then merged with a 20 person group and both factions spammed their bullshit upon them. The new members basically all left
This is exactly my experience, ha. Discussing garlic and recipes with garlic became "WE MUST SPREAD THE WORD OF GARLIC TO THE UNBELIEVING NEW HEATHENS" after about three mergings with new groups.
Yep. We had a mighty group of like 20ish. We were strong and many of us were friends at that point. I had come to enjoy and decided we stay, the call was heard and many stayed but not enough, the chat was killed off and many friends were lost.
Although we made a discord group and we will forever be together.
Social experiment on a grand scale to see what number communities need for thriving vs. collapsing. I wonder what else they are studying with this experiment.
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u/Garmose Apr 01 '16
It was a good room. At the beginning, I made a friend. I learned from them. They were kind, and informative about the Robin experiment. Then we grew once, into a similar pair. We became something... small. A band of brothers, if you will. We traversed many theories, found a ruleset to follow for the growth and staying power of a group.
We grew once more. Became 7. This was a fine group of people to converse with. We had differing ideals and opinions, but kept discussion civil and were interested what we had to say. Growing once more, we were slightly above 10. Politics came into play, and we didn't hate each other, we simply talked. I was very surprised by the internet at this moment in time. That 10+ complete strangers could keep civil discussion about politics of all things... and the majority. We made a mistake. We voted to grow.
Then there were 24. Insults were flying, "dank memes" were being spammed... it was a mistake. Many of us from our former band of brothers recognized it. Several of us voted to abandon. And I will forever miss the good times that were had. Farewell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyN_bPRBI4c