Dealing with mass migrations is also interesting in this context. I'm one of what appears to be many reddit refugees, and I mainly left because of what appeared to be a medium size exodus from digg to reddit.
I assume that the people were moving from digg to reddit because they saw that there were generally "better" elsewhere - why would you move to somewhere if you didn't think it was better? - and then some proportion of those people didn't take the time to get to know the prevailing culture, and so they brought parts of the culture they were fleeing with them.
Seeing that has made me stop and think and then think again before posting here. I'll probably start to consider myself part of the community after a year or 500 comment karma, whichever comes last. Unless reddit implodes and they all come here.
I assume that the people were moving from digg to reddit because they saw that there were generally "better" elsewhere - why would you move to somewhere if you didn't think it was better? - and then some proportion of those people didn't take the time to get to know the prevailing culture, and so they brought parts of the culture they were fleeing with them.
Seeing that has made me stop and think and then think again before posting here. I'll probably start to consider myself part of the community after a year or 500 comment karma, whichever comes last. Unless reddit implodes and they all come here.